If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions.
Character develops itself in the stream of life.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
Enjoy what you can, endure what you must.
Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.
Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.
Willing is not enough, we must do.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one’s own convictions from another’s lips.
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.
From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.
The solution of every problem is another problem.
There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.
Where the light is brightest, the shadows are deepest.
Plunge boldly into the thick of life!
One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going.
Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion.
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work.