Wherever men are noble, they love bright colour; and wherever they can live healthily, bright colour is given them—in sky, sea, flowers, and living creatures.

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

A man is born an artist as a hippopotamus is born a hippopotamus; and you can no more make yourself one than you can make yourself a giraffe.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime.