The people rate strength before everything.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.