Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing.

Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?