All intelligent thoughts have already been thought what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.
Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless.
Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and -- if at all possible -- speak a few sensible words.
I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams.I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams.I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes;At night when on a fragile b...
Everything is hard before it is easy
One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
I think of you when upon the sea the sun flings her beams. I think of you when the moonlight shines in silvery streams. I see you when upon the distant hills the dust awakes; At night when on a fragil...
nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
If you've never eaten while crying you don t know what life tastes like.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
Superstition is the poetry of life.
Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.