Mastery Is Often Taken For Egotism.

Where Confidence Is Wanting, The Most Beautiful Flower In The Garland Of Love Is Missing.

How Can We Know Ourselves? Never By Reflection, But Only Through Action. Begin At Once To Do Your Duty And Immediately You Will Know What Is Inside You.

No One Feels Himself Easy In A Garden Which Does Not Look Like The Open Country.

The Poet Should Seize The Particular, And He Should, If There Be Anything Sound In It, Thus Represent The Universal.

That Which Thy Fathers Have Bequeathed To Thee, Earn It Anew If Thou Wouldst Possess It.