Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.