I must use these great men's virtues as a cloak for my weakness.

Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.

Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

To understand via the heart is not to understand.

My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.