Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows the vain than the virtuous.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

A cat will never drown if she sees the shore.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.