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.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
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.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
In art the best is good enough.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
He'd have improved if you'd not givenHim a mere glimmer of the light in heaven;He calls it Reason, and it has only increasedHis power to be beastlier than a beast.
It's in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.
I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of gen...
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
To rule is easy, to govern difficult.
A useless life is an early death.