The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald.

The most beautiful words of love are told in silence for a look.

I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.