While we are indifferent to our good qualities, we keep on deceiving ourselves in regard to our faults, until we come to look on them as virtues.

Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.

The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many a beetle with loud applause Admires her dress of azure gauze, Admires her body's bright splendour, And also her figure so slender...

Our souls must become expanded by the contemplation of Nature's grandeur, before we can fully comprehend the greatness of man.

True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.

Where books are burned in the end people will be burned too.

I have never seen an ass who talked like a human being, but I have met many human beings who talked like asses.