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

I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner."

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.