When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Whence? wither? why? how? – these questions cover all philosophy.
There is an admiration which is the daughter of knowledge.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Never write anything that does not give you great pleasure. Emotion is easily transferred from the writer to the reader.
Ask the young. They know everything.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102.
Without duty, life is soft and boneless.
Life is a country that the old have seen, and lived in. Those who have to travel through it can only learn from them.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
Drawing is speaking to the eye; talking is painting to the ear.
Genius is the ability to see things invisible, to manipulate things intangible, to paint things that have no features.
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.