Strength is natural, but grace is the growth of habit. This charming quality requires practice if it is to become lasting.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.
Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Abuse of words is the foundation of ideology.
To be capable of respect is almost as rare as to be worthy of it.
Before you use a fancy word, make room for it.
All are born to observe order, but few are born to establish it.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
The paper is patient, but the reader is not.
Politeness is the flower of humanity.
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.