O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

Depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves.

The good painter must paint two things: a person and the essence of his soul.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.