“Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose”

“Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.”

“If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.”

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!”

“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”

“Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.”

“Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”