If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish.

The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon.