A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.

Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.

Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it together.

When one is polite in German, one lies.

When he is by, I could not pray to Heaven.

What's left undone to-day, To-morrow will not do. Waste not a day in vain digression: With resolute, courageous trust Seize every possible impression, And make it firmly your possession; You'll then work on, because you must.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

What you feed in yourself that grows.