An unused life is an early death.
On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.
It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.
Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.
All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world's flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm and o...
Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new
When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius,...
Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Cease endlessly striving for what you would like to do and learn to love what must be done.
Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted...
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Doubt grows with knowledge.