Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.
Deep and earnest thinkers are in a difficult position with regard to the public.
Dear friend, all theory is gray, and green the golden tree of life.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Character in matters great and small consists in a man steadily pursuing the things of which he feels himself capable.
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
Beauty can never really understand itself.
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, a wise man hardly anything.
All practical men try to bring the world under their hands; all thinkers, under their heads. How far each succeeds, they may both see for themselves.