Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature.

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions.

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile, without cultivation.

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

The Things You Take for granted, someone else is praying for...

Only when we realize that we know nothing we can learn a lot.

Try new things. Make mistakes to learn.

To achieve success you need inspiration and aspiration.

If you are not aware of something you will not be able to see it eventhough if it is in front of your eyes.

There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than...

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a...

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.

Men are generally idle, and ready to satisfy themselves, and intimidate the industry of others, by calling that impossible which is only difficult.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.