It is often wise to reveal that which cannot be concealed for long.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

When the wine goes in, strange things come out.

A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.

The hat is the pride of man; for he who cannot keep his hat on before kings and emperors is no free man.

When the measured dance of the hours brings back the happy smile of spring, the buried dead is born again in the life-glance of the sun. The germs which perished to the eye within the cold breast of the earth spring up with joy in the bright realm of day.