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

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

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

Generally he perceived in men of devout simplicity this opinion: that the secrets of nature were the secrets of God, part of that glory into which man is not to press too boldly.

I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.