The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
He who thinks little, errs much.
We ought not to desire the impossible.
It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Fear arises sooner than anything else.
Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly.
He who walks straight rarely falls.
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom.
The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.
What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art.
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Poor is the pupil that does not surpass his master.
He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.
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.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death.
