Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.

Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices.