All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
A useless life is an early death.
Wisdom is found only in truth.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
On all the peaks lies peace.
An unused life is an early death.
It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.
Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
