What is uttered from the heart alone, Will win the hearts of others to your own.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands.

There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.