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There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it;
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
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When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.
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A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
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That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.
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If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.
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You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
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So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
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Noble be man,
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I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
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If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.
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A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.
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I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.
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Live dangerously and you live right.
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To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state.
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Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.
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Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
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More light! Give me more light!
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We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.
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