Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

As is the garden such is the gardener. A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.