Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Everything is hard before it is easy.
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.
Sometimes I don’t understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!
Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy.
If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much.
If you want to make life easy, make it hard.
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.
The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.
He who is and remains true to himself and to others has the most attractive quality of the greatest talent.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.
We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself.