It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
He who walks straight rarely falls.
Wood feeds the fire which burns it.
...The world wouldn't be the world, without trouble.
Experience never misleads; what you are misled by is only your judgment, and this misleads you by anticipating results from experience of a kind that is not produced by your experiments.
Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Poor is the man who desires a lot
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.
The young man should first learn perspective, then the proportions of objects. Next, copy work after the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of drawing parts of the body well; and then to work from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
Music... is the shaping of the invisible.
Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.
Whoever does not respect life, does not deserve it.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
Lust is the cause of generation.
Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all.
Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.
Nothing is hidden under the sun.
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