All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements.

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot.

When counting, try not to mix chickens with blessings.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.