Years teach us more than books.
If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Of all afflictions, the worst is self contempt.
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,-all is there for itself.
Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Some men, like modern shops, hang everything in their show windows; when one goes inside, nothing is to be found.
To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.
When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.
Gratitude is a soil on which joy thrives.
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.
The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.
We hear the rain fall, but not the snow. Bitter grief is loud, calm grief is silent.
What will people say-in these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere.
Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
What is all our knowledge worth? We do not even know what the weather will be tomorrow.
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
Judaism lives not in an abstract creed, but in its institutions.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: