He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.