Revenge is a kind of wild justice.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Art is man added to Nature.

The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.