Microscopes and telescopes really confuse our minds.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Art will always be art.

Man supposes that he directs his life and governs his actions, when his existence is irretrievably under the control of destiny