In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

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

To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.