“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I’d run away.”

Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

In the colorful reflection we have what is life.

Leap and the net will appear.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

Everything transitory is but an image.

Remember to live.

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

On top of the world, or in the depths of despair.

One can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

By seeking and blundering we learn.

He who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

Tame birds sing of freedom. Wild birds fly.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Love is so blind, it feels right when it’s wrong.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.