I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you imagine an audience would want? I have got nobody to excite except myself, so I am always surprised if anyone likes my work sometimes. I suppose I'm very lucky, of course, to be able to earn my living by something that really absorbs me to try to do, if that is what you call luck.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

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.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.