Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
A man’s wife has more power over him than the state has.
Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.