Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.
So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
Words express neither objects nor ourselves.
Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.
The people rate strength before everything.
Only law can give us freedom.
While man’s desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.
The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.
One lives but once in the world.
The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace.
The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.
Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.
Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.
Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!
If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.
Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism.
To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.