You must be either the servant or the master, the hammer or the anvil.

The sickness of the heart is most easily got rid of by complaining and soothing confidence.

Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

The hardest thing is to see what's under your very eyes.

To measure up to all that is demanded of him, a man must overestimate his capacities

Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.