Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life

Why do we hear such everlasting negative talk! People all imagine they’ll be giving something away if they recognize the least bit of merit.

Mastery is often taken for egotism

Only people unable to produce anything themselves feel there is nothing there.

In art the best is good enough.

Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

What matters creative endless toil, When, at a snatch, oblivion ends the coil?

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

And while throughout the self same motion Repeated on forever flows The thousandfold o er arching ocean Its strong embrace around all throws Streams through all things the joy of living The least star thrilleth...

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

Those who have never seen themselves surrounded on all sides by the sea can never possess an idea of the world, and of their relation to it.

Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I have enough of my own.

From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that...

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world

The soul is indestructible and its activity will continue through eternity.

For all guilt is punished on earth.

Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o’er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in...

Still this planet’s soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.

The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume that they are mistaken.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

Live dangerously and you live right.

On all the peaks lies peace.

What have they done to you, my poor child?

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

National hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has...

God knows I often retire to my bed wishing (at times even hoping) that I might never wake up; and in the morning I open my eyes, see the sun once again, and am miserable.

Donde no hay mujeres no existen los buenos modales

To be loved for what one is, is the greatest exception. The great majority love in others only what they lend him, their own selves, their version of him.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for...

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does.

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

You had better live your best, think your best and do your best today…for today will soon be tomorrow and tomorrow will soon be forever

Human beings, by change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I am not omniscient, but much is known to me.

Impartiality is the life of justice, as justice is of all good government

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we’ll need no other light

Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may...

There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give...

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

For this reason the Bible is a book of eternal and effective power; because, as long as the world lasts, no one will say: I comprehend it in the whole and understand it in the...