The coward only threatens when he is safe.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.

Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in part, some great book.

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

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

Whoever strenuously endeavors, him we can rescue.

I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy