The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. |
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. |
The mediator of the inexpressible is the work of art. |
The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. |
The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before |
The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active. |
The people rate strength before everything. |
The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace. |
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. |
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe. |
The persons born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it. |
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. |
The phrases men are accustomed to repeat incessantly, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence |
The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. |
The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal |