I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know

Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.