There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?