Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.
Friedrich SchillerIndividual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.
Friedrich SchillerTime is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.
Friedrich SchillerYet have I ever heard it said that spies and tale-bearers have done more mischief in this world than poisoned bowl or the assassin's dagger.
Friedrich Schiller