The mind is the atmosphere of the soul.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
How many people eat, drink, and get married; buy, sell, and build; make contracts and attend to their fortune; have friends and enemies, pleasures and pains, are born, grow up, live and die - but asleep!
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.
It is always our inabilities that vex us.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
A false mind is false in everything, just as a cross eye always looks askant. But one may err once, nay, a hundred times, without being double-minded. There can never be mental duplicity where there is sincerity.
We should always keep a corner of our heads open and free, that we may make room for the opinions of our friends. Let us have heart and head hospitality.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
Ideas never lack for words. It is words that lack ideas.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Work like you don't need the money.
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.
You want to talk to someone; first open your ears.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
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