Let everyone witness how many different cards fortune has up her sleeve when she wants to ruin a man.

I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good.

All works of nature created by God in heaven and on earth are works of sculpture.

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

Withersoever the wheel of Fortune turns, Virtue stands firm upon her feet.

There are many kinds of conceit, but the chief one is to let people know what a very ancient and gifted family one descends from.

Cats of good breed hunt better fat than lean.

Laws cannot be imposed on him who is the master of the law.

The laws can't be enforced against the man who is the laws' master.

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Who to a woman trusts his peace of mind, Trusts a frail bark, with a tempestuous wind.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.

I don't think his hands could take the abuse.

The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.

Beauty doesn't have anything to do with prettiness. Beauty has to do with something else; it gets into an area where words can't go.