There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.
Saying is one thing and doing is another.
The greater part of the world’s troubles are due to questions of grammar.
I do not believe, from what I have been told about this people, that there is anything barbarous or savage about them, except that we all call barbarous anything that is contrary to our own habits.
It is putting a very high price on one’s conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.
It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her.
Let every foot have its own shoe.
Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.
Pride and curiosity are the two scourges of our souls. The latter prompts us to poke our noses into everything, and the former forbids us to leave anything unresolved and undecided.
Stupidity and wisdom meet in the same centre of sentiment and resolution, in the suffering of human accidents.
My business is only to keep myself in motion, whilst motion pleases me; I only walk for the walk’s sake.
I speak to the paper, as I speak to the first person I meet.
Other people do not see you at all, but guess at you by uncertain conjectures.
Every movement reveals us.
Why do people respect the package rather than the man?
Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.
Whoever will be cured of ignorance, let him confess it.
My art and profession is to live.
To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.