The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.