It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.