Let him that sows the serpent’s teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel, – dark misgivings at the inmost heart.
A childlike mind in its simplicity practises that science of good to which the wise may be blind.
It is at the approach of extreme danger when a hollow puppet can accomplish nothing, that power falls into the mighty hands of nature, of the spirit giant-born, who listens only to himself, and knows nothing of compacts.
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
The world’s history is the world’s judgment.
Uncommon men require no common trust; give him but scope and he will set the bounds.
The happy man does not notice the flight of time.
In love, Jealousy is the great exaggerator.
He who never ventures beyond actuality will never win the prize of truth.
It is play and only play that makes man complete.
Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
The victor is often vanquished by his own success.
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?
Joy all creatures drink At nature’s bosoms...
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
For the world is only governed by self-interest.
An honest man you may form of windle-straws, but to make a rogue you must have grist.