Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
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.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.