Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare.

nobody is such a fool as to moider away his time in the slip-slop conversation of a pack of women.

... I shall go on making sublime and philosophical discoveries, and employing myself in deep, abstract studies.

It is only the vulgar who are always fancying themselves insulted. If a man treads on another's toe in good society, do you think it is taken as an insult?

That's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does.

Art in the classroom not only spurs creativity, it also inspires learning.

If you see a black woman with an overweight white man, you know she got effed up credit!

Deep rivers run quiet.

I don't say everything, but I paint everything.

And I shall always hold myself more obliged to those by whose favour I enjoy uninterrupted leisure than to any who might offer me the most honourable positions in the world.

The more communities in which you are an active participant, the more likely it is that you'll be happy.

Whatever your income, always live below your means.

Hitler had the right idea. He was just an underachiever.