Why Do You Send Fools

Trifles Make Perfection, And Perfection Is No Trifle.

It Is Not Sufficient Merely To Be A Great Master In Painting And Very Wise, But I Think That It Is Necessary For The Painter To Be Very Moral In His Mode Of Life, Or Even, If Such Were Possible, A Saint, So That The Holy Spirit May Inspire His Intellect.

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.

With Few Words I Shall Make Thee Understand My Soul.

I Serve For The Love Of God And In Him Have All My Hope.