By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose fastidious and unfortunate divorce and separation hath troubled and disordered the whole race and generation of mankind.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

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.

Learning teaches how to carry things in suspense, without prejudice, till you resolve it.

Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one.

You can't be more horrific than life itself.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.