Sowing is not as difficult as reaping.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them.

A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly.

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

Nature reacts not only to physical disease, but also to moral weakness; when the danger increases; she gives us greater courage