In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.
The easiest person to deceive is one's self.
The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.
Art and science have their meeting point in method.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
A reform is a correction of abuses; a revolution is a transfer of power.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.
Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can.
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
Power is so characteristically calm, that calmness in itself has the aspect of strength.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Truth makes on the ocean of nature no one track of light; every eye, looking on, finds its own.
In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.
