As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Great souls suffer in silence.
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
Honesty prospers in every condition of life.
A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
