To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

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

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

After painting comes Sculpture, a very noble art, but one that does not in the execution require the same supreme ingenuity as the art of painting, since in two most important and difficult particulars, in foreshortening and in light and shade, for which the painter has to invent a process, sculpture is helped by nature. Moreover, Sculpture does not imitate color which the painter takes pains to attune so that the shadows accompany the lights.