When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.

You see, painting has now become, or all art has now become completely a game, by which man distracts himself. What is fascinating actually is, that it's going to become much more difficult for the artist, because he must really deepen the game to become any good at all.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto ; for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.

Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation.