The days are long enough for those who use them.

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

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

A life well used procures a happy death.

The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same.

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Inequality is the cause of all local movements.