A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.
Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
All things are only transitory.
We will burn that bridge when we come to it.