It is impossible to love and to be wise.

He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.