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.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Common sense suits itself to the ways of the world. Wisdom tries to confirm to the ways of heaven.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Our worries always come from our weaknesses.
Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
Poetry is to be found nowhere unless we carry it within us.
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.
Eyes raised toward heaven are always beautiful, whatever they be.
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.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
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.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.
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.
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
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