Only through Beauty’s morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.
If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.
O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!
When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.
While the gods remained more human, the men were more divine.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men’s opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.
The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.