A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

Energy will do anything that can be done in this world.

A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like.

Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

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

From desire I plunge to its fulfilment, where I long once more for desire.