Come home to men's business and bosoms.
By indignities men come to dignities.
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.
The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected.