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.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless.

Come home to men's business and bosoms.

A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.