Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
Self-assurance is contemptible and fatal unless it is self-knowledge.
The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey.
Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.