Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

More dangers have deceived men than forced them.

I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.