“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
Life“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”
Strength“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”
Life“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”
God“An unused life is an early death.”
Death“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”
Knowledge“It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.”
Fear“Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.”
Nature“Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.”
Dreams“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.”
Men“To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.”
Men“We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.”
Time“To rule is easy, to govern difficult.”
Government“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.”
Beauty“Personality is everything in art and poetry.”
Art“Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.”
Change“To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.”
Love“In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.”
Nature“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
Society“Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.”
Imagination“It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.”
Art“First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.”
Love