Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it.

Who sows virtue ought to reap honour.