Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

Everybody has his own interpretation of a painting he sees.

There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.