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

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

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

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

As you work, the mood grows on you. There are certain images which suddenly get hold of me and I really want to do them. But it's true to say that the excitement and possibilities are in the working and obviously can only come in the working.

So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.