Make an effort to collect the good features from many beautiful faces.

The deeper the feeling, the greater the pain

The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

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.

Those who are inspired by a model other than Nature, labor in vain.

Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.