For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
If children grew up according to early indications we should have nothing but geniuses.
Ordinary people know little of the time and effort it takes to learn to read. I have been eighty years at it and have not reached my goal.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be you do.
Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Who does not know another language does not know his own.
Wisdom is only found in trudi.
The unnatural - that too is natural.
When an idea is wanting a word can always be found to take its place.
It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.
Everyone hears only what he understands.
Talent is nurtured in solitude character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Mozart is the human incarnation of the divine force of creation.
He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.
Modern poets mix too much water with their ink.
But one must know where one stands and where the others wish to go.
Science and art belong to the whole world and before them vanish the barriers of nationality.
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignific...
People may live as much retired from the world as they please but sooner or later before they are aware they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.