Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.
Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it.
A variety of nothing is superior to a monotony of something.
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease.
The German language is the organ among the languages.
I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.