"I have from an early age abjured..." - Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

“In time and with water, everything changes.”

“To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.”

“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”

“When I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up.”

“I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.”

“The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window.”

“I am not a complete vegetarian. I eat only animals that have died in their sleep.”

“A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line”

“It is necessary to correct the error that vegetarianism has made us weak in mind, or passive or inert in action. I do not regard flesh-food as necessary at any stage”