The Builders (1849).
“The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.”
Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 4.
Theology and Mysticism
Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1816)
“But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.”
“Because you cannot see him, God is everywhere.”
As quoted by John Cheever in Home Before Dark: A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by His Daughter (1985) by Susan Cheever
“Various Arts by study might be wrought
Up to their height.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
There is no sense of justice there. Why do I have to do this with them? Why do I have to argue or play this game?"
2010-, You’re There but You’re Not Existing, 2012
“Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.”
Quoted in John F. Stover, History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (1987, Purdue University Press), ISBN 0-911198-81-4, pp. 59–60
Message sent by Morse to officially open the first telegraph line, from Baltimore to Washington, on May 24, 1844
“Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.”
Qua pote quisque, in ea conterat arte diem.
II, i, 46.
Elegies
