Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.