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

People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind.

Our life is made by the death of others.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do.

We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.

The moment is timeless.

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.