All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

Vices of the time; vices of the man.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.