Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.
In life beauty perishes, but not in art.
Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
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.
Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness.