We only have our nervous system to paint.

The mystery lies in the irrationality by which you make appearance - if it is not irrational, you make illustration.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?