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

Friends are thieves of time.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people`s plates.

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.