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

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

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

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.