People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.

A little praise goes a great ways.

I find it a great and fatal difference whether I court the Muse, or the Muse courts me. That is the ugly disparity between age and youth.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.

The connection between our knowledge and the abyss of being is still real, and the explication must be not less magnificent.

No orator can top the one who can give good nicknames.