I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical.

I would live to study, not study to live.

Friends are thieves of time.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.