It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.