The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

average human “looks without seeing, listens without hearing, touches without feeling, eats without tasting, moves without physical awareness, inhales without awareness of odour or fragrance, and talks without thinking.

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

Nothing is hidden under the sun.

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

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.