Mastery passes often for egotism.
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
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.
If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part.
I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.