O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

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.

The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

The moment is timeless.