He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.

Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work least, for they are thinking out inventions.

Love shows itself more in adversitythan in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place isdarkest.

Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood.

Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones.

The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.