All theory, dear friend, is gray but the precious tree of life is green.
All theory, dear friend, is gray but the precious tree of life is green.
O'er the sea we thus career.
And songs that breath'd a deep feeling,
An unused life is an early death.
The man of understanding finds everything laughable.
All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast.
That by magic power was lent.
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
I don't know a greater advantage, than to appreciate the worth of an enemy.
One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame.
A beauteous network of entwining love.
Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to the path which nature has marked out for him.
I am the spirit that forever denies.
I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.
Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow, - He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.
Master and Doctor are my titles for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense And chance may not set it to rights nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.
I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it
Nothing is worth more than this day.
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.
He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.
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.
Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.
If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, 'The same as everywhere.'
The world remains ever the same.
Genius develops in quiet places, Character out in the full current of human life.
I hear the genie's laughter at my fate.
I can promise to be frank, I cannot promise to be impartial.
We need a constitution, we need rules, but we don't need a wall,
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he.
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Behavior is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
The right man is the one who seizes the moment.
I placed my trust in gold and wealth.
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
And to God, too, all is known.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.
Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.
The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Be wise, thus seeking to be blest.
Mother, to this final prayer give ear!
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