It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

The little man is still a man.

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

We see only what we know.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

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