Life well spent is long.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.