He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.
Age merely shows what children we remain.
To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.