Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.

I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible.

I live and love in God's peculiar light.