One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.