In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!

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.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.