Ambition and love are the wings of great actions.

Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

No wise combatant underestimates their antagonist.

If the whole world I once could see On free soil stand, with the people free Then to the moment might I say, Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

Man cannot persist long in a conscious state, he must throw himself back into the unconscious, for his root lives there.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.