Experience is only half of experience.
Those who have no hope for a future life are already dead for the present one.
Life is but a preparation for what there is to come.
Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink.
One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.
What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.
Without haste! without rest! Bind the motto to thy breast! Bear it with thee as a spell; Storm or sunshine, guard it well.
I always had an aversion to your apostles of freedom; each but sought for himself freedom to do what he liked.
When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art.
Beauty can never really understand itself.
Character calls forth character.
Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge.
If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.
Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred.
What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves.
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years.
Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations.