1. “A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.”
2. “Minds which never rest are subject to many digressions.”
3. “Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.”
4. “We must respect the past and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.”
5. “Virtue is the health of the soul.”
6. “Work like you don’t need the money.”
7. “He who has not the weakness of friendship has not the strength.”
8. “Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.”
9. “To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.”
10. “Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has.”
11. “Imagination is the eye of the soul.”
12. “Fear loves the idea of danger.”
13. “Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.”
14. “Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.”
15. “The thought is a thing as real as a cannonball.”
16. “Living requires but little life; doing requires much.”
17. “When we love, it is the heart that judges.”
18. “Old age deprives the intelligent man only of qualities useless to wisdom.”
19. “Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.”
20. “The mind’s direction is more important than its progress.”
21. “Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.”
22. “In these times gain is not only a matter of greed, but of ambition.”
23. “Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.”
24. ‘Space is to place as eternity is to time.”
25. “Credulity forges more miracles than trickery could invent.”
26. “Without duty, life is soft and boneless.”
27. “Slander is the solace of malignity.”
28. “Justice is the right of the weakest.”
29. “Taste has never been corrupted by simplicity.”
30. “Chance generally favors the prudent.”
