Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits.