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

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

I know that we often tremble at an empty terror; yet the false fancy brings a real misery.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

If you cannot please everyone with your deeds and your art, please a few. To please many is bad.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through all the regions of infinity; heaven bestows the dew equally on every thirsty plant. Whatever is good and comes from on high is universal and without reserve: but in the heart's recesses darkness dwells.