Truth was the only daughter of Time.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Life well spent is long.

There are many kinds of beauty as people who possess it.

The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.