He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

Higher yet and higher out of clouds and night, nearer yet and nearer rising to the light - light, serene and holy where my soul may rest, purified and lowly, sanctified and blest.

By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time.

No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.

There is nothing new on earth / For a person who lives long and experiences much. / In my years of youthful wandering / I have seen crystallized people.