To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Love grants in a moment what toil can hardly acheive in an age.