No one feels another's grief, 

no one understands another's joy. 

People imagine they can reach one another. 

In reality they only pass each other by.

How sad it is 

that these great gentlemen should believe what anyone tells them 

and do not choose to judge for themselves! 

But it is always so.

Take care of the sense 

and the sounds will take care of themselves.

The more one pleases everybody, 

the less one pleases profoundly.

There are no lines in nature, 

only areas of colour, 

one against another.

In criticism I will be bold, 

and as sternly, 

absolutely just with friend and foe. 

From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

To understand a science, 

it is necessary to know its history.

For all life is a dream, 

and dreams themselves 

are only dreams.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

The important thing is this: 

to be able, 

at any moment, 

to sacrifice what we are 

for what we could become.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? 

Because thinking determines life.

The good life is a process, 

not a state of being. 

It is a direction 

not a destination.

The wise does at once 

what the fool does at last.

The soul is individualised spirit.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

There's no sense in being precise 

when you don't even know what you're talking about.

We used to think 

that if we knew one, 

we knew two, 

because one and one are two. 

We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.