There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.