Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water.

Nothing is hidden under the sun.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

I love those who can smile in trouble.