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

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks.

If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.