Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
You could say that I have no inspiration, that I only need to paint.
There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power.
A much talking judge is an ill-tuned cymbal.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason