Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.