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.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Silence is the virtue of fools.