People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside.

A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent.

Several classical sayings that one likes to repeat had quite a different meaning from the ones later times attributed to them.

Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.

As long as you are not aware of the continual law of Die and Be Again, you are merely a vague guest on a dark Earth.