It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

Before I start painting I have a slightly ambiguous feeling: happiness is a special excitement because unhappiness is always possible a moment later.

Science is but an image of the truth.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.