“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

“Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.”

“The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.”

“The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.”

“Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”