31 quotes
Nature has no moods. They belong to man alone.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
The best self-forgetfulness is to look at the things of the world with attention and love; for, really, attention is fraught with love, and perhaps that which is most unselfish.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Perfect solitude is when, for a whole day, no human eye has beheld your face.
Auf der Höhe · On the Heights (1865)
What people will say — in these words there lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words bear sway everywhere.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
He who possesses a firm faith, although in solitude, is not alone.
Auf der Höhe · On the Heights (1865)
It lies in our own power to attune the mind to cheerfulness.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
There is a childhood of the soul.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
The best loneliness is when no human eye has rested on our face for a whole day.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Forgetting one’s self, or knowing one’s self, around these everything turns.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
He who, to be happy, needs nothing but himself, is happy.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
He who is one with himself, is everything.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Imagination is the mightiest despot.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed, than to a sack of leaves.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Only what thou art in thyself determines thy value, not what thou hast.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)
Being alone when one’s belief is firm, is not to be alone.
A Dictionary of Quotations in Prose (1889)