When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet."

The painter strives and competes with nature.

I woke up only to find the rest of the world asleep.

Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite.