The lessons of experience are always learned too late.
Masterpieces are only lucky attempts.
It is always the best friends who are neglected and ignored.
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self.
It is love, not faith, that moves mountains.
Simplicity is the essence of the great, the true, the beautiful in art.
Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.
One is happy as a result of one's own efforts, once one knows of the necessary ingredients of happiness-simple tastes, a certain degree of courage, self-denial to a point, love of work, and, above all, a clear conscience. Happiness is no vague dream, of that I now feel certain.
Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.
Anything we destroy in ourselves we destroy in others. Our falls lower others and throw them down; we owe it to our fellows to keep upright, in order that they too may keep their feet.
We must love stupid people better than ourselves; are they not the really unfortunate ones of this world? Do not people without taste and without ideal grow constantly weary, rejoicing in nothing, and being quite useless here below?
You don't have to write to me if you don't feel like it. There's no real friendship without absolute freedom.
All your trouble comes from lack of exercise. A man of your strength and constitution ought always to have kept physically active. So don't jibe at the very wise advice that sentences you to one hour's walk a day. You imagine the work of the mind takes place only in the brain; but you're much mistaken. It takes place in the legs as well.
The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.
faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.
As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
Not to love is to cease to live.
Life isn't always easy but so long as we have hope that we will find someone to help us through the darkness things will always get better. When we find that person, life suddenly explodes and darkness turns into a riot of colour. We're always looking for someone, what we need to remember is that someone is out there looking for us too.
When mental sickness increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.
Punctuation has its own philosophy, just as style does, although not as language does. Style is a good understanding of language, punctuation is a good understanding of style.
nature has not changed. The night is still unsullied, the stars still twinkle, and the wild thyme smells as sweetly now as it did then ... We may be afflicted and unhappy, but no one can take from us the sweet delight which is nature's gift to those who love her and her poetry.
Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.
I'm beginning to believe that there are angels disguised as men who pass themselves off as such and who inhabit the earth for a while to console and lift up with them toward heaven the poor, exhausted and saddened souls who were ready to perish here below.
When they are among us cats are angels
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