Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother.

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast.