“One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is when we see its separate forms jumbled together.”
“Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.”
“In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.”
“The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.”
“The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.”
“Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.”
“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
“You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.”
“The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.”
“The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.”
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”
“The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.”
“We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.”
“Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable.”
“What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.”
“Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.”
“If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
“We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.”
“Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.”
“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.”
“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
“The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.”
“Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.”
“This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
“Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.”
“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”
“What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.”
“The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.”