A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

The painter's mind is a copy of the divine mind, since it operates freely in creating the many kinds of animals, plants, fruits, landscapes, countrysides, ruins, and awe-inspiring places.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

In life beauty perishes, but not in art.