For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.