Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.
A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way.
Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.
And step by step, along the path of life, There’s nothing true but Heaven.
As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.
Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.
Nature has neither core nor skin: she’s both at once outside and in.
All understanding begins in wonder!
How can one learn to know oneself? Never by introspection, rather by action.
The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen.
I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage.
When I make a mistake everyone can see it, but not when I lie.
True happiness springs from moderation.
As our inclinations, so our opinions.
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.
The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.
Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain and pleasure, success and failure, shift as they will – it’s only action that can make a man.
Colour itself is a degree of darkness...