Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?

He who always seeks more light the more he finds, and finds more the more he seeks, is one of the few happy mortals who take and give in every point of time. The tide and ebb of giving and receiving is the sum of human happiness, which he alone enjoys who always wishes to acquire new knowledge, and always finds it.

Stubbornness is the strength of the weak.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you already know.

Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.

The enemy of art is the enemy of nature; art is nothing but the highest sagacity and exertion of human nature; and what nature will he honour who honours not the human?