It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.
The more we see the more we must be able to imagine, and the more we imagine, the more we must think we see.
What can the Creator see with greater pleasure than a happy creature?
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.