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1. He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
2. All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.
3. The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.
4. Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
5. Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.
6. How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting.
7. The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.
8. The Medici created and destroyed me.
9. The smallest feline is a masterpiece.
10. It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
11. Our life is made by the death of others.
12. The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
13. Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.
14. Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
15. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
16. The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow.
17. The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.
18. I have wasted my hours.
19. I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.
20. The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.