A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.
Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.
This is the true measure of love, When we believe that we alone can love, That no one could ever have loved so before us, And that no one will ever love in the same way after us.