Love has the tendency of pressing together all the lights - all the rays emitted from the beloved object by the burning-glass of fantasy, - into one focus, and making of them one radiant sun without any spots.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.

Mastery is often taken for egotism.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.