Art not only imitates nature, but also completes its deficiencies.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Sometimes art imitates life.

Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

The search for truth is in one way hard and in another way easy, for it is evident that no one can master it fully or miss it wholly. But each adds a little to our knowledge of nature, and from all the facts assembled there arises a certain grandeur.

No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.