To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

God loveth the clean.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

If you can talk about it, why paint it?

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

Whatever you can, count.