Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Will it, and set to work briskly.
It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans.
Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
The key to education is the experience of beauty.
Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.
Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.
The will of man is his happiness.
Every true genius is bound to be naive.
There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit.
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.
Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
No emperor has the power to dictate to the heart.
The history of the world is the world's court of justice.