There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others

There is no past we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternal now that builds and creates out of the past something new and better.

I have observed that as long as one lives and bestirs himself, he can always find food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth.