I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.

I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils.