To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

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