Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

A good memory, which nature has endowed us with, causes things long past to seem present.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

A life well used procures a happy death.