A friend to all is a friend to none. - Aristotle

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."

"Hope is a waking dream."

"The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one thing they have not in them, the principle of soul."

"To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."

"I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law."