Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

It is impossible that beauty should ever distinctly appreciate itself.

What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.