"The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art."

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

"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

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

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

"Love does not dominate; it cultivates."

"In art the best is good enough."

"For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is."

"Trust yourself, then you will know how to live."

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

"Wisdom is found only in truth."

"People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not."

"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

"Not the maker of plans and promises, but rather the one who offers faithful service in small matters. This is the person who is most likely to achieve what is good and lasting."

"Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction."

"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste."

"To rule is easy, to govern difficult."

"The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace."

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."

"What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own."

"The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active."

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

"How can we know ourselves? Never by reflection, but only through action. Begin at once to do your duty and immediately you will know what is inside you."

"Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it."

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

"When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self."

"Man's greatest achievement is astonishment."

"It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself."

"Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them."

"The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."

"How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee."

"Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity."

"We will burn that bridge when we come to it."

"Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it."

"The deed is everything, the glory is naught."

"There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."

"Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity."

"Doubt can only be removed by action."

"Love can do much, but duty more."

"If each one does their duty as an individual and if each one works in their own proper vocation, it will be right with the whole."

"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."

"Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth."

"Every offense is avenged on earth."

"What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes"

"What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner."

"Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution."

"A really great talent finds its happiness in execution."

"Personality is everything in art and poetry."

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."