The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
Never cut what you can untie.
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
To teach is to learn twice.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Justice is the truth in action.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt.