All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
To be simple is to be great.
The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Self-trust is the first secret of success.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
When there is no vision people perish.
No sensible person ever made an apology.
Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -
This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labour shall...
Poetry must be as new as foam, and as old as the rock.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
A man in debt is so far a slave.
There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.
Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.