No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.