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.

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.