O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air.