It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

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

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.