Honesty prospers in every condition of life.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

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.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

To rankling poison hast thou turned in me the milk of human kindness.