Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

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.

The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

Painting is a duality and abstract painting is an entirely aesthetic thing. It always remains on one level. It is only really interesting in the beauty of its patterns or its shapes.