Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul.

An arch consists of two weaknesses which, leaning one against the other, make a strength.

Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

To speak ill of a good person is not truly good, all in all.