The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish, a grampus or sperm whale, because it draws water as its breath instead of air.

The water you touch in a river is the last of that which has passed, and the first of that which is coming. Thus it is with time present. Life, if well spent, is long.

O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.

There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment.

The water which rises in the mountain is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well.