The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

A state of affairs which leads to daily vexation is not the right state.

We don't get to know anything but what we love.

Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power.