Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.