I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.
In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
Perspective is the rein and rudder of painting.
Ask advice of him who governs himself well.
If a man has a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and be it twelve bracchia across (over twenty-five feet) and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining injury. [His concept of the parachute.]