"On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long."

"What is my life if I am no longer useful to others."

"People should talk less and draw more. Personally, I would like to renounce speech altogether and, like organic nature, communicate everything I have to say visually."

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

"In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."

"No one as ever completed their apprenticeship."

"Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."

"The happy do not believe in miracles"

"Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be."

"When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face."

"I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy."

"The people rate strength before everything."

"Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows."

"All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience."

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

"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."

"We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright."

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

"Without haste, but without rest."

"A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days."

"A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."

"We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to."

"A person hears only what they understand."

"The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency."

"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."

"A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal."

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."

"Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."

"Nature has neither kernel nor shell; she is everything at once"

"Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order."

"The unnatural, that too is natural."

"Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything."

"Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat."

"No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge. The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones. Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?"

"As our inclinations, so our opinions"

"Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable."

"Whether a person shows themselves to be a genius in science or in writing a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, or the deed, is living and can live on."

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed that can make life a garden."

"So long as you live and work, you will be misunderstood; to that you must resign yourself once and for all. Be silent!"

"The man of understanding finds everything laughable."

"To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed -- That can make life a garden."

"Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own."

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different"

"Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks he can talk about language"

"Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''"

"We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions."

"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."

"It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it."

"No one should be rich except those who understand it."

"The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden."