The deed is all, the glory nothing.

A man’s shortcomings are taken from his epoch; his virtues and greatness belong to himself.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thoughtful person. Although I am still the same I believe to have changed to the bones.

Was Du in Dir nährst, das wächst.

In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a...

In comradeship is danger countered best.

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless.

Treat a man as if he were what he ought to be and you help him become what he is capable of being

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.

The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence

Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

He who does not know how to give himself an account of three thousand years may remain in the dark, inexperienced, and live from day to day

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Each one sees what he carries in his heart

The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

The smallest hair throws its shadow

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

Eğer gönüller gerçekten aydınlıksa, güneş ışığına gerek kalmaz.Başkalarının esirgediği şeyi biz kendi kalbimizde buluyoruz..

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

But there are times,” said Charlotte, “when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

If you ask what the people here are like, I must tell you, “Like people everywhere!” Uniformity marks the human race.

Isso é bem outra coisa”, replicou Alberto, “porque um homem que se deixa arrastar por uma paixão violenta perde a faculdade de refletir e deve ser considerado como um ébrio, como um demente.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

To be pleased with one’s limits is a wretched state.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow

Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Death is Nature’s expert advice to get plenty of Life.

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

He who is plenteously provided for from within, needs but little from without.

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

We cannot possess what we do not understand

Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?

A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

Every situation, every moment — is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.

People of a vertain rank will always keep a cool distance from common people, as if they were afraid to lose their dignity by too much familiarity.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

The right man is the one that seizes the moment.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

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...