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.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick.