Never make heads straight on the shoulders, but turn them aside to the right or to the left, even though they look down, or upward, or straight ahead, because it is necessary for them to look lively and awake and not asleep. And do not depict the front or rear half of the whole person so that too much straightness is displaced, one half above or below the other half; and if you should wish to use stiff figures, do so only in portraying old people.

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Truth was the only daughter of Time.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.