There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

When any of the four pillars of government-religion, justice, counsel, and treasure-are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.