Philosophers ruin language, poets ruin logic, but with human reasoning alone man will never make it through life. |
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. |
Power is the most persuasive rhetoric. |
Sorrow is brief but joy is endless |
That which is so universal as death must be a benefit. |
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. |
The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty. |
The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error. |
The history of the world is the world's court of justice. |
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds |
The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh |
The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life. |
The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and design he is hardly below even the poet |
The strong man is strongest when alone. |
The universe is one of God's thoughts |