O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.

Poor is the man who desires a lot

For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.