If you are to accomplish all that one demands of you, you must overestimate your own worth.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer.

Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love.

Only law can give us freedom.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

In all times it is only individuals that have advanced science, not the age.