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.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

The worst men often give the best advice.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.