As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
One drop of hatred left in the cup of joy turns the most blissful draught into poison.
O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.
Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce!
Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.
Gray hairs are death's blossoms.
Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
It is through beauty that we arrive at freedom.
O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old!
The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.
If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new.
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.
The will of man is his happiness.
Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.
Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.
No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.
Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain.
Toil of science swells the wealth of art.
Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.
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