There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

The Greeks put us to shame not only by their simplicity, which is foreign to our age; they are at the same time our rivals, nay, frequently our models, in those very points of superiority from which we seek comfort when regretting the unnatural character of our manners. We see that remarkable people uniting at once fullness of form and fullness of substance, both philosophising and creating, both tender and energetic, uniting a youthful fancy to the virility of reason in a glorious humanity.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

Death is a mighty mediator. There all the flames of rage are extinguished, hatred is appeased, and angelic pity, like a weeping sister, bends with gentle and close embrace over the funeral urn.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

If you would attain to your highest, go look upon a flower;what the flower does willessly, that do willingly.