That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

It is not the place that maketh the person, but the person that maketh the place honorable.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Let art, then, imitate nature, find what she desires, and follow as she directs. For in invention nature is never last, education never first; rather the beginnings of things arise from natural talent, and ends are reached by discipline.

There is nothing god cannot do.