The favorites of the country are those whom we call the soul of man, - these are the people devoid of a shameful selfishness: wherever they are, they feel no discomfort and help everyone else not to feel it.
Love is fleeting and ends with marriage.
Love is the reflection by others of self-respect.
People need to be perceived in not very high doses.
People only see what they are ready to see.
People who want to instill terror show how cowardly they are.
People who are over forty have no right to judge books written in a new spirit.
People who have character - that's what the conscience of society is...
I am not disturbed by our vices, but I admit that I am ashamed of our virtues.
A wise man always sides with those who attack him. He is far more interested in finding a weak spot in him than they are.
Music challenges us to think eloquently.
Music shows man those possibilities of splendor that lie within his soul.
We resemble our contemporaries more than our ancestors.
We get angry at different temperatures.
In life we find only those things that we ourselves contribute.
We never forgive the giver. The hand that feeds us can be bitten.
We gladly receive everything that is given to us out of love, only it is like receiving a gift from yourself; but we reject the gift of him who thinks himself entitled to be virtuous.
We want to live a long life, but in the end, only the depth of life and its great moments matter. Let us, therefore, measure time with a spiritual measure!
We are smarter than we think.
The thought is a flower, the word is an ovary, and the deed, an embryo.
To hit the target, you have to aim higher than it.
Science does not know what it owes to fantasy.
Do not flatter your benefactors.
There is nothing simpler than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be grand.
Never read a book that is less than a year old.
No one has yet achieved greatness by following school rules.
No one speaks the truth and lives righteously for even two minutes.
Nothing great has ever been accomplished without enthusiasm.
Nothing is less gladly forgiven than difference of opinion.
The moral influence of nature on man is measured by the truth she has revealed to him.