Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
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.
It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own.
Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Time abides long enough for those who make use of it.
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.
Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.