“Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears.”

I would not be beholden to a tyrant, for his acts of tyranny.

A honest man is seldom a vagrant.

I know not what treason is, if sapping and betraying the liberties of a people be not treason.

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

For it is but usurpation in him to save, as their rightful lord, the lives of men over whom he has no title to reign.

Art, and Industry, as far as by it he hurts not the Society, or any Members of it, by taking from any Member, or by hindering him from enjoying what he himself enjoys.

Blessed be they as virtuous, who when they feel their virile members swollen with lust, visit a brothel rather than grind at some husband’s private mill.

The cabbage surpasses all other vegetables. If, at a banquet, you wish to dine a lot and enjoy your dinner, then eat as much cabbage as you wish, seasoned with vinegar, before dinner, and likewise after dinner eat some half-dozen leaves.

Don’t promise twice what you can do at once.

Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.

Never travel by sea when you can go by land.

The primary virtue is: hold your tongue; who knows how to keep quiet is close to God.

The Fruits of a Man’s honest Industry are the just Rewards of it, ascertained to him by natural and eternal Equity, as is his Title to use them in the Manner which he thinks fit: And thus, with the above Limitations, every Man is sole Lord and Arbitrer of his own private Actions and Property.

Good-breeding is the art of showing men, by external signs, the internal regard we have for them. It arises from good sense, improved by conversing with good company.

It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.

Should anyone attempt to deceive you by false expressions, and not be a true friend at heart, act in the same manner, and thus art will defeat art. [If you would catch a man let him think he is catching you.]

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation – is that good for the world?

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of ‘the flock.

I’m attracted to images that come from a personal exploration of a subject matter. When they have a personal stamp to them, then I think it becomes identifiable.

A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.

I would never create an image for myself; I’m not that clever.

I’ve never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that’s not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone’s image is as an artist is what they’ve chosen to portray.

Maybe an image is worth 1000 words, but some words are worth 10,000 tears.