If I love you, what business is it of yours?

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art.

Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

In art the best is good enough.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

An unused life is an early death.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

A useless life is an early death.

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

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

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Wisdom is found only in truth.