It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Boldness is a child of ignorance

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.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

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

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.