I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Savage is he who saves himself.

Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.

If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.