For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes.
When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.