The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.

Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection.

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

The first object of the painter is to make a flat plane appear as a body in relief and projecting from that plane

Anyone who invokes authors in discussion is not using his intelligence but his memory.