I have reared a memorial more enduring than brass, and loftier than the regal structure of the pyramids, which neither the corroding shower nor the powerless north wind can destroy; no, not even unending years nor the flight of time itself. I shall not entirely die. The greater part of me shall escape oblivion.

He possesses dominion over himself, and is happy, who can every day say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the heavenly father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine, he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place.

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.

We set up harsh and unkind rules against ourselves. No one is born without faults. That man is best who has fewest.

As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it

There is nothing hard inside the olive; nothing hard outside the nut.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.