We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

We understand why children are afraid of darkness ... but why are men afraid of light?

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

There is a ... matter - much more valuable and divine than natural philosophy . ... On this matter I must speak to you in enigmas.

The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.