Necessity is a guardian in Nature.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.

How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.

Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.