Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

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

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.