It is a hard but good law of fate, that as every evil, so every excessive power, wears itself out.

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Those that embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part love nothing, but their narrow selves.

What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.

Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.

It is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.