The cat is nature's masterpiece.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

simplicity is the best sophistication

O time! swift devourer of all created things!

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

Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use.