What you have inherited from your forefathers, it takes work to make it your own.
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.
In art it's not the thinking that does the job, but making.
I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it.