Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.