The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.

We think according to nature. We speak according to rules. We act according to custom.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.