Great riches have sold more men than they have bought.

The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.