There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things you make coagulate and take on just the shape you intend. Totally accurate marks, which are outside representational marks.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.