Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.

Divide and command, a wise maxim; Unite and guide, a better.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

Stones are mute teachers; they silence the observer, and the most valuable lesson we learn from them we cannot communicate.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

I must consider more closely this cycle of good and bad days which I find coursing within myself. Passion, attachment, the urge to action, inventiveness, performance, order all alternate and keep their orbit; cheerfulness, vigor, energy, flexibility and fatigue, serenity as well as desire. Nothing disturbs the cycle for I lead a simple life, but I must still find the time and order in which I rotate.