Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.