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.

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.

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.

In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

Ältere Bekanntschaften und Freundschaften haben vor neuen hauptsächlich das voraus, dass man sich einander schon viel verziehen hat.

There occurs the beautiful feeling that only humanity together is the true human being, and that the individual can be cheerful and happy only if he has the courage to feel himself in the Whole.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

15″General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.

Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality

Every second is of infinite value

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal

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...

I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

If you 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.

Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. – Without haste, but without rest.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.