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.

Savage is he who saves himself.

Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?

My body is not a tomb for animals.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it