ks have dreamt the dream of life the best.

We readily bow to antiquity, but not to posterity. It is only a father
that does not grudge talent to his son. The whole art of living consists
in giving up existence in order to exist.

All our pursuits and actions are a wearying process. Well is it for him
who wearies not.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have
worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by
poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply
it himself.

A man must pay dear for his errors if he wishes to get rid of them, and
even then he is lucky.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away
by it.

Error is related to truth as sleep to waking. I have observed that on
awakening from error a man turns again to truth as with new vigor.

Every one suffers who does not work for himself. A man works for others
to have them share in his joy.

Common-sense is born pure in the healthy man, is self-developed, and is
revealed by a resolute perception and recognition of what is necessary
and useful. Practical men and women avail themselves of it with
confidence. Where it is absent, both sexes find anything necessary when
they desire it, and useful when it gives them pleasure.

All men, as they attain freedom, give play to their errors. The strong
do too much, and the weak too little.

The conflict of the old, the existing, the continuing, with development,
improvement and reform, is always the same. Order of every kind turns at
last to pedantry, and to get rid of the one, people destroy the other;
and so it goes on for a while, until people perceive that order must be
established anew. Classicism and Romanticism; close corporations and
freedom of trade; the maintenance of large estates and the division of
the land--it is always the same conflict which ends by producing a new
one. The best policy of those in power would be so to moderate this
conflict as to let it right itself without the destruction of either
element. But this has not been granted to men, and it seems not to be
the will of God.

A great work limits us for the moment, because we feel it above our
powers; and only in so far as we afterward incorporate it with our
culture, and make it part of our mind and heart, does it become a