All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

The aim of living is life itself.

The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

The summit charms us, the steps to it do not; with the heights before our eyes, we like to linger in the plain. It is only a part of art that can be taught; but the artist needs the whole. He who is only half instructed speaks much and is always wrong; who knows it wholly is content with acting and speaks seldom or late.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.