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.

When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction.

For those colours which you wish to be beautiful, always first prepare a pure white ground.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places.

Man's external form, marvellously constructed, is not much as compared with the divine soul that dwells inside that structure.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death.