The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

Only law can give us freedom.

As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.