Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.
Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
The wildest colts make the best horses.
It were better to have no opinion of God at all than such a one as is unworthy of him for the one is only belief - the other contempt.
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.