...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a man truly what he is.

Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.