A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.