Every obstacle is destroyed through rigor.
Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.
We may call painting the grandchild of nature.
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Life, when is spent well, is long.
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.