Every offense is avenged on earth.

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

Wherever a man may happen to turn, whatever a man may undertake, he will always end up by returning to that path which nature has marked out for him.

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

Words express neither objects nor ourselves.

A purpose you impart is no longer your own.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.