All beings come from little, and little is needed for them to come to nothing.

All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away.

How old the world is! I walk between two eternities... What is my fleeting existence in comparison with that decaying rock, that valley digging its channel eve…

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Su…

Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked. And death was observed with sudden cries, And birth with laughter and pain. And the trees grew taller and blac…