As long as you don't practice it, this dying and becoming, You are only a dreary guest on this dark earth.

Whether one show one's self a man of genius in science or compose a song, the only point is, whether the thought, the discovery, the deed, is living and can live on.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

The universal subjugator, the commonplace.

Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.

Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.