The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. It is not like a drug; it is a particular state when everything happens very quickly, a mixture of consciousness and unconsciousness , of fear and pleasure; it's a little like making love, the physical act of love.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.