Doubt grows with knowledge. |
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. |
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. |
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. |
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. |
A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. |
Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public. |
Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done. |
Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is. |
One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. |
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us. |
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy. |
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won. |
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. |
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. |
If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick. |
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. |
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. |
Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. |
Mastery passes often for egotism. |