A cunning mind emphatically delights in its own cunning, and is the ready prey of cunning..

You must never believe what the newspapers say. I stand aghast at the impudence of the lies they contain, things not only false in fact, but absolute….

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically ful….

Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution..

The streams which would otherwise diverge to fertilize a thousand meadows, must be directed into one deep narrow channel before they can turn a mill..

A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity..

Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all..

He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own..

Lavater told Goethe that on a certain occasion when he held the velvet bag in the church as collector of the offerings, he tried to observe only the ….

In our relations with the people around us, we forgive them more readily for what they do, which they can help, than for what they are, which they ca….