The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

If you want to reach the infinite, then explore every aspect of the finite.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.