People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

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.

It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker.

Putting your hand into a river, you simultaneously touch the last of what is passing and the first of what is coming.

Every man at three years old is half his height

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.