“Foster the beautiful, and every hour thou tallest new flowers to birth.”

Man is created free, and is free, even though born in chains.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler’s.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Life is earnest, art is gay.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Rarely do we arrive at the summit of truth without running into extremes; we have frequently to exhaust the part of error, and even of folly, before we work our way up to the noble goal of tranquil wisdom.

Intellect-brain force.

You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.

On dreary night let lusty sunshine fall.

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor’s hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable – as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

The gentlest man cannot live in peace if it does not please his wicked neighbor.

It would be necessary that they should be already sages to love wisdom.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

It’s a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one’s going to stop me now.

Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things.

Everywhere that I’ve been, the only thing I see is beautiful people.

So please don’t judge me and I won’t judge you ’cause it could get ugly before it gets beautiful.

Beauty is where you find it.

Love adorns itself; it seeks to prove inward by outward beauty.

My father had extravagant notions of my beauty, grace, wit, and charm.