Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting.
Every second is of infinite value.
By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we’ll need no other light.
He who cannot love must learn to flatter.
Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.
Live dangerously and you live right.
Chess is the touchstone of intellect.
The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and the determination to attain it.
A distracted existence leads us to no goal.
People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.
A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.
I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be.
Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.
Boldness has power, magic and genius in it.
What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.
The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh.