It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Beware of wishing for anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.

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.

Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.