Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?

For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.

Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed.

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.