A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.
Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing.
The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies.
The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.
A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."