Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

The eternal feminine draws us on high.

Wer fremde Sprachen nicht kennt, weiss nichts von seiner eigenen.He who is ignorant of foreign languages, knows not his own.

Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.

The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually.