Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

What chance gathers, she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

Our wishes are presentiments of the abilities that lie in us, harbingers of what we will be able to accomplish.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.