Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated.