Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.
A good conscience is a continual feast.
He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's.