What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.
A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.
To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?
Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them.
Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.
All that is transitory is but a metaphor.
Leap and the net will appear.
We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.
There is strong shadow where there is much light.
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.