True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.