Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

The most difficult thing is what is thought to be the simplest; to really see the things which are before your eyes.