"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us"
"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform"
"To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us"
"Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this"
"This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew"
"Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking"
"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world"
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at"
"The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection"
"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part"
"The little man is still a man"
"One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best"
"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude"
"No one has ever learned fully to know themselves"
"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction"
"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles"
"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout"
"Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable"
"Mastery passes often for egotism"
"Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time"
"Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is"
"Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen"
"Love does not dominate; it cultivates"
"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united"
"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him"
"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed"
"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself"
"It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them"
"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself"
"In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance"
"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself"
"I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me"
"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true"
"I love those who yearn for the impossible"
"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should"
"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator"
"The human mind will not be confined to any limits"
"The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes"
"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim"
"The deed is everything, the glory is naught"
"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own"
"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age"
"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends"
"Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers"
"Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid"
"Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture"
"He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it"
"He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy"
"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity"
"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation"
