Life, when is spent well, is long.

Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.