You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
Science confounds everything; it gives to the flowers an animal appetite, and takes away from even the plants their chastity.
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
The talkative man speaks from his mouth, the eloquent man speaks from his heart.