If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst.

Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had