People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

Why look for conspiracy when stupidity can explain so much

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!