Work & Money Sayings

It is not the business of the artist to be happy.

I work hard, and if you work hard you can do it too.

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.

Your coarse impudence in making me a proposition to employ my sword in a civil war is simply incomprehensible. You insolent scoundrel! Do you realize it has never been dipped in American blood?

All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.

Pleasure is the business of women, according to the present modification of society, and while it continues to be so, little can be expected from such weak beings.