He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

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

But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment.

...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion.

I would live to study, not study to live.

A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.