Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.