The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of retribution.

Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction.

Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight.

If I love you, what business is it of yours?