It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.

Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.