Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

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

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.