Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.
Collectors are happy people.
The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
Create, artist, do not talk.
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
Talent develops in quiet, alone; character is sharpened in the torrent of the world.
The happy do not believe in miracles.
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
The clever reader who is capable or reading between these lines what does not stand written in them but is nevertheless implied will be able to form some conception.