Everything has its poetry. 94

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

The paper is patient, but the reader is not.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas. 102

When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

Tenderness is the repose of passion.

Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

Few minds are spacious; few even have an empty place in them or can offer some vacant point. Almost all have narrow capacities and are filled by some knowledge that blocks them up. What a torture to talk to filled heads, that allow nothing from the outside to enter them! A good mind, in order to enjoy itself and allow itself to enjoy others, always keeps itself larger than its own thoughts. And in order to do this, these thoughts must be given a pliant form, must be easily folded and unfolded, so that they are capable, finally, of maintaining a natural flexibility.All those short-sighted minds see clearly within their little ideas and see nothing in those of others; they are like those bad eyes that see from close range what is obscure and cannot perceive what is clear from afar. Night minds, minds of darkness.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

There are those to whom one must advise madness.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

The breath of the mind is attention 128

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you.

Drawing is speaking to the eye talking is painting to the ear.

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

The spectacle has changed but our eyes remain the same.

Education should be gentle and stern not cold and lax.

What a man knows only through feeling can be explained only through enthusiasm.

Children have more need of models than of critics.

Think of the ills from which you are exempt.

Luckily I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

When my friends lack an eye I look at them in profile.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

Without duty life is soft and boneless.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Without duty life is soft and bone less.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

It is an aspect of all happiness to suppose that we deserve it.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Happy is the man who can do only one thing: in doing it he fulfills his destiny.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Never cut what you can untie.

Genius begins great works labor alone finishes it.

Without duty life is soft and boneless.

Think that day lost whose descending sun views from thy hand no noble action done.

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth.

Never cut what you can untie.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.

To teach is to learn twice.

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.