A book worth reading is worth buying.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

When God shuts a door, He opens a window.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.