If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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Anand Thakur
If one but tell a thing well, it moves on with undying voice, and over the fruitful earth and across the sea goes the bright gleam of noble deeds ever unquenchable.
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We are things of a day. What are we? What are we not? The shadow of a dream is man, no more.
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The test of any man lies in action.
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The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
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Water is the best of all things.
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O my soul, do not aspire to immortal life, but exhaust the limits of the possible.
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in our power holds us apart, so that man is nothing, but the brazen floor of heaven is eternally unshakable.
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Success abides longer among men when it is planted by the hand of God.
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Finding that the middle condition of life is by far the happiest, I look with little favor upon that of princes.
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May God grant me love for that which has splendor; but in this time of my life let me strive for attainable things.
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Words have a longer life than deeds.
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He is gifted with genius who knoweth much by natural inspiration.
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Time is the turning over of days, works change for better or worse.
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With our mortal minds we should seek from the gods that which becomes us.
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Of the good things given between man and man, I say that a neighbor, true and loving in heart, to neighbor is a joy beyond all things else.
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Convention is the ruler of all.
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