Even in a righteous cause force is a fearful thing.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.

The mind is the eyesight of the soul.

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

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

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.