The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.