A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.