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| 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. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The senses do not deceive us, but the judgment does. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The society of women is the element of good manners | | Uncategorized | |
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| The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. | | Uncategorized | |
| The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden. | | Uncategorized | |
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| The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ruin his work | | Art | |
| The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently. | | Uncategorized | |
| The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden | | World | |
| The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse | | Uncategorized | |
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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;
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. | | Dreams; Indecision | |
| Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days | | Uncategorized | |
| There are nine requisites for contented living: HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure; WEALTH enough to support your needs; STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them; GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them; PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished; CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor; LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others; FAITH enough to make real the things of God; HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. | | Uncategorized | |
| There are two things parents should give their children: roots and wings. Roots to give them bearing and a sense of belonging, but also wings to help free them from constraints and prejudices and give them other ways to travel (or rather, to fly). | | Children | |
