You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.

Those herbs which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but, being trodden upon and crushed, are three; that is, burnet, wild thyme and watermints. Therefore, you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

In all superstition wise men follow fools.