A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion.

In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.