Painting is silent poetry.

As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.

Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions.

The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth.