Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.

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.