As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc. stells and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.

The German language is the organ among the languages.