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

Analysis and synthesis are both as necessary to the thinking spirit as inspiration and expiration to the organism.

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

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

The older I get the more I trust in the law according to which the rose and the lily bloom.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.