Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
The ancestor of every action is a thought… Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
Judge your natural character by what you do in your dreams.