...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.