A dwarf can stand on a mountain, he's no taller.

God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all things, who has established and laid the foundation of the world, who has clothed Himself with Creation, He is greater and better than that which He has wrought. Hidden from our eyes, He can only be reached by the spirit.

That comes too late that comes for the asking.

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.