The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do
The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it.
Experiment is the sole interpreter of the artifices of Nature.
Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.
Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.