Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
God enters by a private door into every individual.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.
This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
The faith that stands on authority is not faith.