He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.

Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more.

All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it.

Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words.

Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.

My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.