Gray is the color of all theory |
Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness. |
Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down |
Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. |
Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate. |
Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. |
He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew |
He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in this world |
He is dead in this world who has no belief in another. |
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. |
He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home |
He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm. |
He who cannot love must learn to flatter |
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. |
He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear of him. |