The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.
To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.
Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.
The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights.
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad.