Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

There shall be wings! If the accomplishment be not for me, 'tis for some other. The spirit cannot die; and man, who shall know all and shall have wings.

He who walks straight rarely falls.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

Oh! Speculators on things, boast not of knowing the things that nature ordinarily brings about; but rejoice if you know the end of those things which you yourself device.

Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.