Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

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

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.

Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.