Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, "Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone."

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.