Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

No form of nature is inferior to art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.

When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.

Thou art a little soul bearing about a corpse.

The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.

Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you've been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up? So what?