The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Some artists leave remarkable things which, a 100 years later, don't work at all. I have left my mark; my work is hung in museums, but maybe one day the Tate Gallery or the other museums will banish me to the cellar... you never know.