Man’s greatest achievement is astonishment.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.

Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them....

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Whatever liberates our spirit without giving us self-control is disastrous.

It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for...

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Talent develops in quiet, Character in the torrent of the world

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

The history of mankind is his character.

Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.

It is better to busy one’s self about the smallest thing in the world than to treat a half hour as worthless

The little man is still a man.

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Niemand ist mehr Sklave, als der sich für frei hält, ohne es zu sein.None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

He who moves not forward, goes backward.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

All that is transitory is but a metaphor.

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

Few people have the imagination for reality.

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

The people rate strength before everything.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here.

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

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Gray is the color of all theory

Their is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

What you inherit from your fathermust first be earned before it’s yours.

You can’t, if you can’t feel it, if it neverRises from the soul, and swaysThe heart of every single hearer,With deepest power, in simple ways.You’ll sit forever, gluing things together,Cooking up a stew from other’s...

By seeking and blundering we learn.