The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
You have to go the rounds from individual to individual in order to gather the totality of the race.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.
Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.