A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

The discovery of a good wine is increasingly better for mankind than the discovery of a new star.

Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

If you cause your ship to stop and place the head of a long tube in the water and place the outer extremity to your ear, you will hear ships at a great distance from you.

Be a mirror, absorb everything around you and still remain the same

If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil.