O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.

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.

If thou art something bring thy soul and interchange with mine. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.