Those who covet much suffer from the want.

Enjoy thankfully any happy hour heaven may send you, nor think that your delights will keep till another year.

The wolf attacks with his fang, the bull with his horn.

He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.

"Painters and poets," you say, "have always had an equal license in bold invention." We know; we claim the liberty for ourselves and in turn we give it to others.

I praise her (Fortune) while she lasts; if she shakes her quick wings, I resign what she has given, and take refuge in my own virtue, and seek honest undowered Poverty.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it A mistress, if thou knowest not.