"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing."

"A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise."

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."

"An unused life is an early death."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

"Must it so be that whatever makes man happy must later become the source of his misery?"

"Common sense is the genius of humanity."

"It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him."

"Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless."

"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator."

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"Age merely shows what children we remain."

"There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior."

"The best slave is the one who thinks he is free."

"On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold."

"And while throughout the self-same motion, Repeated on forever flows, The thousandfold overarching ocean, Its strong embrace around all throws, Streams through all things the joy of living, The least star thrills fond accord, And all their crowding, all their striving, Is endless rest in God the Lord."

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

"Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill."

"He who moves not forward, goes backward."

"If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art."

"We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavour to efface them."

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."

"What's foreign one can't always keep quite clear of,For good things, oft, are not so near;A German can't endure the French to see or hear of,Yet drinks their wines with hearty cheer."

"Live dangerously and you live right."

"One who has passed the thirtieth yearalready is as good as dead--it would be best to kill you off by then."

"Nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"

"I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing."

"It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed."

"Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."

"Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

"Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends."

"Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days."

"The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains."

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

"Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere Error holds sway, feeling happy and comfortable in the knowledge of having Majority on its side."

"Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it."

"What is important in life is life, and not the result of life."

"Everything transitory is but an image."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting over lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss."

"If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."

"Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves."

"A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude."

"Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new."

"Wisdom is found only in truth."

"Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."

"I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."

"Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate."