Error is acceptable as long as we are young but one must not drag it along into old age.
The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.
This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion.
The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.
Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
We can't form our children on our own concepts we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.
We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.
Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.
Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.