While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.

He who thinks little errs much.

The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee...gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.