Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

He who wishes to see how the soul inhabits the body should look to see how that body uses its daily surroundings. If the dwelling is dirty and neglected, the body will be kept by its soul in the same condition, dirty and neglected.

The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.