So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.

Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.

All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.