Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding.

Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

By indignities men come to dignities.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.