The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.
Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.
An unused life is an early death.
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
There is no higher or purer pleasure than to sit with closed eyes and hear a naturally expressive voice recite... a play of Shakespeare's.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
Talent develops in tranquility, character in the full current of human life.
Colors are light's suffering and joy
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.
Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.
Girls we love for what they are young men for what they promise to be.
Doubt grows with knowledge.