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.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

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