The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man.
God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet.
Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.
Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.
I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.