Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
In every society some men are born to rule, and some to advise.
If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Genius always finds itself a century too early.
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Children are all foreigners.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.