Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres.

O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying.

Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends.

He turns not back who is bound to a star.

I wish to work miracles.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.