For behavior, men learn it, as they take diseases, one of another.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.