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.
Misery travels free through the whole world!
Live with your century; but do not be its creature.
Stubbornness is not firmness.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment.