Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.