"The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."
"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art."
"Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
"A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things."