Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.
Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.
He only profits from praise who values criticism.
Newness hath an evanescent beauty.
Round my cradle shimmered the last moonbeams of the eighteenth century and the first morning rays of the nineteenth.