Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

Those that are firm in their will mold the world to themselves.

So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.