If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

To me the external existence of my soul is proved from my idea of activity. If I work incessantly until my death, nature will give me another form of existence when the present can no longer sustain my spirit.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off.

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.