You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.
Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.
Questions show the mind’s range, and answers its subtlety.
It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.
Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.
What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.
Children have more need of models than of critics.
Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.
When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.
Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.
All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.
Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.
Whence? wither? why? how? – these questions cover all philosophy.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.
Only choose in marriage a man whom you would choose as a friend if he were a woman.
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.
The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.
Genius begins great works labor alone finishes them.