Precepts are the rules by which we ought to square our lives. When they are contracted into sentences, they strike the affections; whereas admonition is only blowing of the coal.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

Everything in art is but a copy of nature.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

How much longer are you going to be a pupil? From now on do some teaching as well.