Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

• Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
• Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
• A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
• Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
• Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
• The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
• Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
• The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.