Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Personality is everything in art and poetry.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
Colors are light's suffering and joy
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.