If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Science is but an image of the truth.
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him “Was your mother never at Rome?” He answered “No Sir; but my father was.”
The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.
It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried.
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don’t in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.
Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.