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

Silence is the virtue of fools.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.