You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be. Lavater.
You are obliged to your imagination for three-fourths 15 of your importance. Garrick.
You are prosperous, you are great, you are "beyond the world," as I have heard people say, meaning the power or the caprice thereof; but you are not beyond the power of events. Disraeli to young men.
You are to come to your study as to the table, with a sharp appetite, whereby that which you read may the better digest. He that has no stomach to his book will very hardly thrive upon it. Earl of Bedford.
You are transported by calamity / Thither where more attends you. Coriolanus, i. 1.
You arrive at truth through poetry, and I arrive at poetry through truth. Joubert.
You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come; / 20 Knock as you please, there's nobody at home. Pope.
You begin in error when you suggest that we should regard the opinion of the many about just and unjust, good and evil, honourable and dishonourable. Plato.
You can easily ascertain (verstehen) what comes from the heart, for what comes from it in another's must go to your own. Körner.
You can imagine thistle-down so light that when you run after it your running motion would drive it away from you, and that the more you tried to catch it the faster it would fly from your grasp. And it should be with every man, that, when he is chased by troubles, they, chasing, shall raise him higher and higher. Ward Beecher.