You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don’t blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid...

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once

Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think.

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

More light!

All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon. It never makes an appearance itself, but is a visible reflection in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind. It is as various as nature herself.

O, het is met de verte als met de toekomst! Een wijd, schemerachtig vergezicht ligt voor ons, onze ziel en onze ogen drinken het in, en wij haken ernaar ons er helemaal aan over te...

if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful.

When I say to the Moment flying;’Linger a while — thou art so fair!’Then bind me in thy bonds undying,And my final ruin I will bear!

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

Man… knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man...

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

When I err every one can see it, but not when I lie

Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.”

Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

He who has a firm will molds the world to himself.

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

Nature alone is illimitably rich, and Nature alone forms the great artist.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

If I say to the moment: ‘Stay now! You are so beautiful’!

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this...

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

It’s in the anomalies that nature reveals its secrets.

Evet Wilhelm, bazen bir an için kalkıp gitme, bağları koparma cesareti buluyorum kendimde, keşke nereye gideceğimi bilsem! heralde giderdim.

Ich mögte beten wie Moses im Koran: Herr mache mir Raum in meiner engen Brust.

Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.

If your treat an individual … as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without...

My poor head is in such a whirl, my mind is all in bits.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

While man’s desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking