The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things.

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.