Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself.

As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.

Truth was always but the daughter of time.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.