I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I, will look upon the murder of animal as they now look upon the murder of men.
Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.
My body will not be a tomb for other creatures.
Whey does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake?
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
The human soul is like a ship with a hidden bottom.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
He who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you.
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Though I am not a master of this art, nevertheless, because of my zeal, I have, while investigating things, achieved something.
Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world.
Our life is made by the death of others.
God sells us all things at the price of labour.
He who does not value his life, does not deserve it.
The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.
If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself.