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

Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

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

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.