What can a sculptor do without the chisel and the hammer? And what can an impostor politician do without the ignorants and the uneducated?

Fame is like a castle. Castles are beautiful to dream and wonderful to watch, but too encircled to live in!

History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.

Love all the seasons, because every season has its own treasures! Winter does not own the treasures of the spring; the spring does not own the treasures of the winter! If you know only the autumn, you are poor; if you know only the summer, you are poor! To be rich, love all the seasons and live all the seasons! Wise man is the one who knows all the treasures of all the seasons!

The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!

Bridge shortens the roads; wisdom does the same!

Those ignoramuses who think that birds are happy in their cages know not a single thing about freedom!