What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I will be lord over myself.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.