You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.