Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Category Archive: February 22
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.
It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.