Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet.

Lay hold of life with both hands, whenever thou mayest seize it, it is interesting.

It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms.

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.

Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road.