Even people who are entirely strange and indifferent to one another will exchange confidences if they live together for a while, and a certain intimacy is bound to develop.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Exageras tudo e, por certo, cometes pelo menos o erro de aceitar o suicídio, que é do que estamos falando agora, como se fosse uma grande ação, quando não é nada mais do que simplesmente...

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don’t understand; no wonder they come to grief.

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one’s ego except by love

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man’s life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

To see I was born, To look is my call, To the tower sworn, I delight in all. I glance out far, And see what is near… You blessed eyes, What you saw everywhere,

We can really respect a man only if he doesn’t always look out for himself

He who cannot love must learn to flatter

No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently...

Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,Röslein auf der Heiden.Und der wilde Knabe brach’sRöslein auf der Heiden;Röslein wehrte sich und stach,half ihm doch kein Weh und Ach,musst’ es eben leiden.Röslein, Röslein, Röslein rot,Röslein auf der Heiden.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Literature decays only as men become more and more corrupt.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.

What’s foreign one can’t always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can’t endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer.

There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins...

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Who never ate his bread in sorrow, who never sat the sorrowful nights weeping on his bed, he knows you not, you heavenly Powers.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Austere perseverance, hash and continuous… rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistible greater with time.

Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.

Without haste, but without rest.

The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them

Where there are no women there are no good manners

We don’t get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves

To accept good advice is but to increase one’s own ability

Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish...

Do you know the land where the lemon-trees flower?

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one’s self.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

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.

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.