The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

Water is the driving force of all nature.

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