The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be acted.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.