Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

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.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

What kind of truth is it which has these mountains as its boundary and is a lie beyond them?

In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.