You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.

Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

What is uttered from the heart alone Will win the hearts of others to your own.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

If any man wish to write a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.