Blessed is the man, 

who having nothing to say, 

abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, 

There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, 

as the confidence of their help.

We are all apprentices in a craft 

where no one ever becomes a master.

Art is not what you see, 

but what you make others see.

The only real failure in life is 

not to be true 

to the best one knows.

We live in a fantasy world, 

a world of illusion. 

The great task in life is to find reality.

If you can speak what you will never hear, 

if you can write what you will never read, 

you have done rare things.

The time at our disposal each day is elastic; 

the passions we feel dilate it, 

those that inspire us shrink it, 

and habit fills it.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold 

is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

In argument 

similes are like songs in love; 

they describe much, 

but prove nothing.

If you do not change direction, 

you may end up where you are heading.