He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

The men of the past had convictions, while we moderns have only opinions.

I have smelt all the aromas there are in the fragrant kitchen they call Earth; and what we can enjoy in this life, I surely have enjoyed just like a lord!

I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.

Christ rode on an ass, but now asses ride on Christ.

As the stars are the glory of the sky, so great men are the glory of their country, yea, of the whole earth. The hearts of great men are the stars of earth; and doubtless when one looks down from above upon our planet, these hearts are seen to send forth, a silvery light just like the stars of heaven.