“The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.”

“Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils”

“Money is a great servant but a bad master.”

“Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”

“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.”