I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

It is sometimes essential for a husband and a wife to quarrel - they get to know each other better.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

We talk too much. We should talk less and draw more.

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.

Conscience is the virtue of the observers not the agents of action