Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

I roamed the countryside searching for the answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains along with the imprints of coral and plant and seaweed usually found in the sea. Why the thunder lasts a longer time than that which causes it and why immediately on its creation the lightening becomes visible to the eye while thunder requires time to travel. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone and why a bird sustains itself in the air. These questions and other strange phenomena engaged my thought throughout my life.

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.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.