Can a sparrow know how a stork feels?

The one who acts is always without conscience; nobody has a conscience but the contemplative person.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.