The useful may be trusted to further itself, for many produce it and no one can do without it; but the beautiful must be specially encouraged, for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.
What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life.
No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country.
Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!
Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn’t really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.
If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole.
The little man is still a man.
Secrecy has many advantages, for when you tell someone the purpose of any object right away, they often think there is nothing to it.
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
I do not speak of what I cannot praise.
It is delivery that makes the orators success.
I don’t know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.
The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.
Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.
Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Whoever aspiring, struggles on, for him there is salvation.
Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.
Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.