Friendship increases in visiting friends but in visiting them seldom.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many...
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Natural abilities are like natural plants that need pruning by study and...
Travel in the younger sort is a part of education in the elder a part of...
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead but only the stroke of death.
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in...
Things alter for the worse spontaneously if they be not altered for the...
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the...
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for...
Virtue is like a rich stone best plain set.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation...
Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have...
The worst men often give the best advice.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or...
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social...
Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Life an age to the miserable and a moment to the happy.
Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's...
I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination where they meet in the myth.
