There is no crime of which I do not deem myself capable.

We eagerly get hold of a law that serves as a weapon to our passions.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

It is in self-imitation that a master first shows himself.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Judge a man’s character by what he finds ridiculous.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

All greatness in the world came about because someone did more than he had to do.

I can promise to be sincere, but not to be impartial

Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.

Being full of mischief, they love to listen;they gladly obey, for they like to betray you,pretending to be sent from Heaven,and lisping like angels, while they lie.

Truth has to be repeated constantly, because Error also is being preached all the time, and not just by a few, but by the multitude. In the Press and Encyclopaedias, in Schools and Universities, everywhere...

Colors are light’s suffering and joy

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way...

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

In Bibliotheken fühlt man sich wie in Gegenwart eines großen Kapitals, das geräuschlos unberechenbare Zinsen spendet.

He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.

You don’t have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach

The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

One never goes so far as when one doesn’t know where one is going

Science arose from poetry… when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn’t really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error

The happy do not believe in miracles

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced; the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases

There is nothing in the world more pitiable than an irresolute man, oscillating between two feelings, who would willingly unite the two and who does not perceive that nothing can unite them

Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part – yet nothing in...

All force strives forward to work far and wideTo live and grow and ever to expand;Yet we are checked and thwarted on each sideBy the world’s flux and swept along like sand:In this internal storm...

The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his...

Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and — if at all possible — speak a few sensible words.

Treat people as if they were what they should be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good.

He who does not think too much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Some of our weakness is born in us, some of it comes through education; it is a big question as to which gives us the most trouble.

The bird alighteth not on the spread net when it beholds another bird in the snare. Take warning by the misfortunes of others, that others may not take example from you.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.