The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it.

He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.

Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

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

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span.