Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

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

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through.

It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

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

There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God.