Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced.

I do not speak of what I cannot praise.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for.