High fortune, this in man's eye is god and more than god is this.
The high strength of men knows no content with limitation.
Art is far feebler than necessity.
And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness; and he will never come to utter ruin.
Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows.
The tongue of slander is too prompt with wanton malice to wound the stranger.