The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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.

The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk.