Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.