[ Text accompanying sketch of man with parachute :] If a man have a tent made of linen of which the apertures have all been stopped up, and it be twelve braccia across and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any height without sustaining any injury.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

A clever man without wisdom is like a beautiful flower without fragrance.

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal’s murder the same way they look today upon a man’s murder.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

A diamond is just a lump of coal that stuck to its job.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.

A gray day provides the best light.