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

Most men, even the most accomplished, are of limited faculties; every one sets a value on certain qualities in himself and others: these alone he is willing to favour, these alone will he have cultivated.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

The loss of a much-prized treasure is only half felt when we have not regarded its tenure as secure.

He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.