No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

To become aware in time when young of the advantages of age; to maintain the advantages of youth in old age: both are pure fortune.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it.

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

A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew, It was a modest flower. A shepherdess pass'd by that way-- Light footed, pretty and so gay; That way she came, Softly warbling forth her lay.

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.