The strong man is strongest when alone.

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.

Against stupidity, God Himself fights in vain.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

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