A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,Upon the heart of men.Have hope! though clouds environ round,And gladness hides her face in scorn...
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Man is not better treated by nature in his first start than her other works are; so long as he is unable to act for himself as an independent intelligence she acts for him. But the very fact that cons...
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Nothing leads to good that is not natural.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.