The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

The riddle of the age has for each a private solution.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

The ancients called beauty the flowering of virtue.

Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew!