The old lose one of the greatest privileges of man, for they are no longer judged by their contemporaries.
We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.
We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.
We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.
One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.
Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her.
To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.
Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.
Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong.
It is opposition that makes us productive.
Mysterious in the light of day, nature retains her veil, despite our clamours: That which she does not willingly display cannot be wrenched from her with levers, screws and hammers.
It is equally a mistake to hold one’s self too high, or to rate one’s self too cheap.
What is fruitful alone is true.
A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up.
Don’t give us your doubts, gives us your certainties, for we have doubts enough of our own.
There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others.
The Bible grows more beautiful, as we grow in our understanding of it.
Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence – – this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.