"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."

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

"Gracious Providence, to whom I owe all my powers, why didst thou not withhold some of those blessings I possess, and substitute in their place a feeling of self-confidence and contentment?"

"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."

"A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."

"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 decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."

"Superstition is the poetry of life."

"A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch, his virtues and greatness belong to himself."

"Each one sees what he carries in his heart."

"On top of the world, or in the depths of despair."

"He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth."

"We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us."

"When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one."

"A useless life is an early death."

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

"It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself."

"The limits of my language are the limits of my universe."

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

"Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity."

"This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us."

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

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

"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."

"We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright."

"The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it."

"When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,-are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?"

"In this world one is seldom reduced to make a selection between two alternatives. There are as many varieties of conduct and opinion as there are turns of feature between an aquiline nose and a flat one."

"Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them."

"There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."

"But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write."

"I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true."

"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

"Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest."

"The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross."

"The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become."

"I will say nothing against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."

"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."

"Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."

"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be."

"If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute."

"The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part."

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

"I am the spirit that negates.And rightly so, for all that comes to beDeserves to perish wretchedly;'Twere better nothing would begin.Thus everything that that your terms, sin,Destruction, evil represent-That is my proper element."

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

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

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

"To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform."