If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection

I am still learning. (at age 87)

It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand.

I feast on wine and bread, and feasts they are.