To lie is vile, to tell truth is excellent, if not noble.

Life, when is spent well, is long.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Good writing comes from good talent.

It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation.

Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling.