Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Cure the disease and kill the patient.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

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 worst men often give the best advice.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

By indignities men come to dignities.