The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one.

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.