Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Nearly allied to justice are the virtues of beneficence, compassion, gratitude, piety, and friendship.

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life, to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.