In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply.
These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation.
How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
To act is easy; to think is hard.
You don’t have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.
Good children’s literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child.
Know’st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket’s gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!
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.
True happiness springs from moderation.