He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

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

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

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.