Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.
We are not all equal, nor can we be so.
Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.
Only the soul that loves is happy.
Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best – That is our besetting danger.
No skill or art is needed to grow old; the trick is to endure it.
All is born of water; all is sustained by water.
Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.
Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.
Mystery is truth’s dancing partner.
Our earthly ball a peopled garden.
One does not get to know that one exists until one rediscovers oneself in others.
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.
Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling.
Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.
Noble be man, helpful and good!
Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.
Like the star that shines afar, Without haste and without rest, Let each one wheel with steady sway Round the task that rules the day, And do their best.