Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

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

Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.

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.

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.