Sorrows must die with the joys they outnumber.
Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.
If you want to study yourself, look into the hearts of other people. If you want to study other people, look into your own heart.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Accursed be he who plays with the devil.
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.