But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.

A good conscience is a continual feast.

Money is a great servant but a bad master.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.