Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities.

When another is asked a question, take special care not to interrupt to answer it yourself.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Blinded as they are to their true character by self-love, every man is his own first and chiefest flatterer, prepared, therefore, to welcome the flatterer from the outside, who only comes confirming the verdict of the flatterer within.

For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven.

Painting is silent poetry.

What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel