Velazquez found the perfect balance between the ideal illustration which he was required to produce, and the overwhelming emotion he aroused in the spectator.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs.