Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Make your faces so that they do not all have the same expression, as one sees with most painters, but give them different expression, according to age, complexion, and good or bad character.

Not to anticipate is already to moan.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.