Movement will fail sooner than usefulness.

I have discovered that a screw-shaped device such as this, if it is well made from starched linen, will rise in the air if turned quickly.

I am never weary of being useful... In serving others I cannot do enough. No labor is sufficient to tire me.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Most men are of naught more use in their lives but as machines for turning food into sh*t.

I am not poor. Poor are those who desire many things.

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.