Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

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

My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes.