Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
There is a courtesy of the heart it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts.
There you have it! - How they anticipate my wishes, how they grant friendship's little attentions, which are worth a thousand times more than breathtaking presents that merely prove the giver's vanity...
He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.
Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, every...
Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of...
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Each one sees what he carries in his heart.
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.
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be ch...
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.