It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.

I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

It is a mistake for a taciturn, serious-minded woman to marry a jovial man, but not for a serious-minded man to marry a lighthearted woman.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

It is commonly the personal character of a writer which gives him his public significance. It is not imparted by his genius. Napoleon said of Corneille, "Were he living I would make him a king;" but he did not read him. He read Racine, yet he said nothing of the kind of Racine.