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

Everything is both simpler than we can imagine and more entangled than we can conceive.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.