Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
Believe, youth, despite all temptations, the oracle of deity in your own bosom.
It is refreshing, amidst the inane common-places bandied in pulpits and parlors, to hear a hopeful word from an earnest, upright soul.
Ever present, potent, vigilant, in the breast of man, there is that which never became a party in his guilt
Enduring fame is ever posthumous. The orbs of virtue and genius seldom culminate during their terrestrial periods.
The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.
The less of routine, the more of life.
Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
Conceive of slaughter and flesh-eating in Eden.
Prudence is the footprint of Wisdom.
As the man, so his God
Man muss ein weiser Leser sein, um weise und gut zitieren zu können.
Es ist besser, für etwas zu kämpfen als gegen etwas.
Weniger Routine, mehr Leben!
Es ist besser, für etwas zu kämpfen, als gegen etwas.
Nur wenige können diskutieren. Die meisten streiten nur.
Mache mich stark, indem du mit meinen Kräften sympathisierst - und nicht mit meinen Schwächen.
