Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.

As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.

Great changes are easier than small ones.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.