Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

The color of the object illuminated partakes of the color of that which illuminates it.

Music... is the shaping of the invisible.

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.

Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit.

Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble.

Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition.