The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

Say what we may of the inadequacy of translation, yet the work is and will always be one of the weightiest and worthiest undertakings in the general concerns of the world.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.

I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake.

The world is full of contradiction.