All things are difficult before they are easy.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
The noblest revenge is to forgive.
Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs.
Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help, and what he cannot help.
Good clothes open all doors.
Serving one’s own passions is the greatest slavery.
A book that is shut is but a block.
Great hopes make great men.
Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.
He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.
Get the facts, or the facts will get you.
A few books, well-chosen and well-made use of, will be more profitable than a great, confused Alexandrian library.
Danger past, God is forgotten.
Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.
Unschuld ist kein Schutz.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come – as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Health is not valued till sickness comes.