A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

He who thinks little errs much.

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.