Angry and choleric men are as ungrateful and unsociable as thunder and lightning, being in themselves all storm and tempest; but quiet and easy natures are like fair weather, welcome to all.

The laboring man and the artificer knows what every hour of his time is worth, and parts not with it but for the full value.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece; in which he so much excelled that men were not ashamed of being deceived but twice by him.

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

If we did not take great pains, and were not at great expense to corrupt our nature, our nature would never corrupt us.

Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.

That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

She liked the words

The colour of the sea and the skyAre both blue and yet distinctOne depends on the other And, the other is by love inked…

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

I have as much pink as you can have. I love to see other women in pink. It's good for every shade of skin and hair.

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

What an English King has no right to demand, an English subject has a right to refuse

In this world we live in now, with a 24/7 news cycle, perception can sometimes be more powerful than reality.

We will never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it. It's this self discovery that inevitably takes us to the wildest places on earth.