To discover the soul living in somebody's body, we watch the surrounding of the body, and if it's messy and disordered, so is the soul.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.

In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . .

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way.