~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

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.

There is the name and the thing; the name is a sound which sets a mark on and denotes the thing. The name is no part of the thing nor of the substance; it is an extraneous piece added to the thing, and outside of it.

A man must learn to endure patiently what he cannot avoid conveniently.

All we do is to look after the opinions and learning of others: we ought to make them our own.

The births of all things are weak and tender and therefore we should have our eyes intent on beginnings.

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.