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.

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

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

There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.

Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.