The eternal feminine draws us on high.

We blame equally him who is too proud to put a proper value on his own merit and him who prizes too highly his spurious worth.

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult.

When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive; then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.

Where there are no women there are no good manners

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems.