Understanding a question is half an answer.
YOU ARE NOT ONLY GOOD TO YOURSELF, BUT THE CAUSE OF GOODNESS IN OTHERS
To know, is to know that you know nothing.
I have lived long enough to learn how much there is I can really do without.... He is nearest to God who needs the fewest things.
The friend must be like money, that before you need it, the value is known.
The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.