Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.
Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains.
I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
Don’t dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
I am certain that I have been here as I am now a thousand times before, and I hope to return a thousand times.
Habit is a man’s sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed.
One must keep repeating the Truth.
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers.
That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.
Then to the depths! – I could as well say height: It’s all the same.
Giving is the business of the rich.
Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language.
You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.
It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.
Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune’s always here.
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually.