I laugh at my heart, and do its will

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool.

I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.

Know'st thou yesterday, its aim and reason? Work'st thou will today for worthier things? Then calmly wait the morrow's hidden season, And fear thou not, what hap soe'er it brings