There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.
Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men.
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
The intellect seeks, the heart finds.
You may impose silence upon me, but you can not prevent me from thinking.
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!
Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
A child motivated by competitive ideals will grow into a man without conscience, shame, or true dignity.
The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship.
honesty dies in selling itself.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.
There is only one sex. A man and a woman are so entirely the same thing that one can scarcely understand the subtle reasons for sex distinctions with which our minds are filled.
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