Revolutions are not made with rosewater.

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two.

In some exquisite critical hints on "Eurythmy," Goethe remarks, "that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story." And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature.

The first essential to success in the art you practice is respect for the art itself.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

The law is a gun, which if it misses a pigeon always kills a crow; if it does not strike the guilty, it hits someone else. As every crime creates a law, so in turn every law creates a crime.

Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness.