"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"The natural desire of good men is knowledge."

"Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."

"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."

"A good painter is to paint two main things namely men and the working of man's mind."

"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."

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

"Water is the driving force of all nature."

"It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own."

"The knowledge of all things is possible."

"The smallest feline is a masterpiece."