It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

The best slave is the one who thinks he is free.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

The people rate strength before everything.

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?