It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

Virtue is health, vice is sickness.

Life in itself is short enough, but the physicians with their art, know to their amusement, how to make it still shorter.

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

Alack our life, so beautiful to see, With how much ease life losest, in a day, What many years with pain and toil amassed!