A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
Love is the cause of unity in all things.
Excellence is not an art. It is the habit of practice.
We must not feel a childish disgust at the investigations of the meaner animals. For there is something marvelous in all natural things.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
The ridiculous is produced by any defect that is unattended by pain, or fatal consequences; thus, an ugly and deformed countenance does not fail to cause laughter, if it is not occasioned by pain.