When you are alone you are all your own.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard.

In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.