If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday . . . I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.

I don't advise any one to take it up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor.

I look back on my life a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.