Misery travels free through the whole world!
Obedience decks the Christian most.
I feel an army in my fist.
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless
Alas! When duty grows thy law, enjoyment fades away.
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.
What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.
Never the grave gives back what it has won!
Most gladly would I give the blood-stained laurel for the first violet which March brings us, the fragrant pledge of the new-fledged year.
Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation. Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.
We must bear what Heaven sends.
Pain is short, and joy is eternal.
Have Faith. Where'er thy bark is driven, - The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, - Know this: God rules the hosts of heaven, The habitants of earth.
When the gods were more manlike, Men were more godlike.
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Man, one may say, was never in such a completely animal condition; but he has, on the other hand, never escaped from it.
A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.
Deaf rage that hears no leader.
Art is difficult, transient is her reward.
Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart.
A virtuous name is the precious only good, for which queens and peasants' wives must contest together.
Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.
Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime.
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