The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Imagination is the eye of the soul.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Never cut what you can untie.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Without duty life is soft and boneless.
To teach is to learn twice.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.
Chance usually favors the prudent man.
Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Justice is the truth in action.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.
Misery is almost always the result of thinking.