No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.
Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion.
Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.
Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others.
Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights – all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, – into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.
Marriage is the beginning and pinnacle of civilization.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
The style of an author is a faithful copy of his mind.
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
I make presents to the mother but think of the daughter.
Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.
How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!
For the nature of women is closely allied to art.
Blood is a very special juice.
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.
Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.