Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer. Go some distance away because then the work appears smaller and more of it can be taken in at a glance and a lack of harmony and proportion is more readily seen.

You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child.

That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude.

Inaction saps the vigor of the mind.