The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.