Whosoever loves not picture is injurious to truth, and all the wisdom of poetry. Picture is the invention of heaven, the most ancient and most akin to nature. It is itself a silent work, and always one and the same habit.

How Fortune piles her sports when she begins to practise them!

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.

When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.