Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know