The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.
I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
Precaution is better than cure.
He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.
The unnatural, that too is natural.