"Take care of your body with steadfast fidelity. The soul must see through these eyes alone, and if they are dim, the whole world is clouded."

"The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it."

"A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations."

"He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home"

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

"The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence."

"My peace is gone, my heart is heavy."

"To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state."

"At the moment of commitment, the universe conspires to assist you."

"has played a powerful part in shaping the opinions of the group of intellectuals who are behind Hitler in the epoch-making program."

"Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon."

"Individuality seems to be Nature's whole aim -- and she cares nothing for individuals."

"Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew."

"Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it"

"Only law can give us freedom."

"If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long."

"Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here."

"It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage."

"One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks."

"Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."

"Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."

"There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste."

"A distracted existence leads us to no goal."

"What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won."

"One never goes further than when they do not know where they are going."

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

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

"Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it is sure to repent every ill-judged outlay."

"First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."

"The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth."

"The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources."

"The history of mankind is his character."

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

"Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing"

"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."

"Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game."

"Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or whither he goes, he knows little of the world, and above all, he knows little of himself."

"Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions."

"It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united."

"We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe."

"Traveling is like gambling: it is always connected with winning and losing, and generally where it is least expected we receive, more or less than what we hoped for."

"All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green."

"I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator."

"He who is firm in will molds the world to himself."

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent."

"Giving is the business of the rich."

"Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal"

"Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation."

"The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality."

"The highest problem of every art is, by means of appearances, to produce the illusion of a loftier reality"