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

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels.

Innovations, which are the births of time.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.