A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.