Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like right in their eyes.

To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.