Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.

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

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.