“As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.”

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.

The greater the man’s soul, the deeper he loves.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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

It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.

God sells us all things at the price of labor.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Motion is created by the destruction of balance.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there’s no truth in us. Why then belike we must sin, And so consequently die. Ay, we must die an everlasting death.

It is better to live rich than to die rich.

A common soldier will make an empire, but he will eventually meet his fate and be condemned to the Great Rock.

Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but life is always cyclical, and the year ends as it begins.

The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.

I shall not live ’till I see God; and when I have seen Him, I shall never die.