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

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master.

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

...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know