“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
“He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.”
“The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.”
“It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.”
“The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.”
“The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.”
“Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want.”
“Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.”
“Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.”
“The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.”
“Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.”
“The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.”
“Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.”
“There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.”
“Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.”
“We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.”
“For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.”
“Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.”
“The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.”
“A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.”
“If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.”
“Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.”
“The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.”
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.”
“We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.”
“Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.”
“The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.”
“The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it.”
“Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.”
“Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach”