Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them.

The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest.