“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.”

“It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.”

“There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.”

“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”

“Good painters imitate nature, but bad ones spew it up.”

“Abundance, even of good things, prevents them from being valued”

“The ability to reason the un-reason which has afflicted by reason saps my ability to reason, so that I complain with good reason of your infinite loveliness.”