Quotes

The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.

Brevity is the sister of talent.

Divine nature gave the fields, human art built the cities.

I am never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when alone.

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

Is it not a pleasure to learn and, in due time, to practise what one has learned?

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.