For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously.

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

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.

Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.