As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered.

Nature alone is the master of true genius.

Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.

And you who wish to represent by words the form of man and all the aspects of his membrification, relinquish that idea. For the more minutely you describe the more you will confine the mind of the reader, and the more you will keep him from the knowledge of the thing described. And so it is necessary to draw and to describe.

If you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. Let us hope that.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.