"Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows."

"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."

"There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know."

"God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul."

"Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power."

"There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go."

"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another"

"Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm."

"In women everything is heart, even the head"

"True, what you sacrifice for the world is but poorly recognized by it; for it is man that rules and reaps the harvest; the thousand night watches and sacrifices by which a mother secures the state a hero or a poet are forgotten, not even mentioned, for the mother herself does not mention them, and so one century after another do the wives, unknown and unrewarded send forth the arrows, the starts the storm-birds and the nightingales of time."

"No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons."

"It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them."

"Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life."

"All souls must undergo transmigration and the souls of men revolve like a stone which is thrown from a sling, so many turns before the final release... Only those who have not completed their perfection must suffer the wheel of rebirth by being reborn into another human body."

"Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest"

"I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more."

"Weaklings must lie."

"The look of a king is itself a deed."

"The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made."

"Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something"

"Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it."

"The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored."

"Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions."

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

"Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men."

"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."