Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

The coward only threatens when he is safe.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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.

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.

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

A person hears only what they understand.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

The unnatural, that too is natural.

I call architecture frozen music.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Love can do much, but duty more.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.