“The happy man does not notice the flight of time.”

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor.

Deaf rage that hears no leader.

Around, around, Companions all, take your ground, And name the bell with joy profound! CONCORDIA is the word we’ve found Most meet to express the harmonious sound, That calls to those in friendship bound.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who’s made the master of his destiny.

False fancy brings real misery.

Stern is the visage of necessity.

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life.

Art is the daughter of freedom.

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.

While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

No, no! I do nature injustice. She gave us inventive faculty, and set us naked, and helpless on the shore of this great ocean,–the world; swim those who can, the heavy may go to the bottom.

No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand.

Forgiveness is the divinest of victories.

His saying was: live and let live.

The world moves fast and it would rather pass by than to stop and see what makes you cry.

You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are. If you want to get anywhere, you’ll have to run much faster.

I wish I had a time-turner so that I could spend a little more time with you. You left too soon, you left too fast.

I was definitely living fast. I was working, traveling a lot, playing. I didn’t stop. It all became unbalanced.

If you’re in control, you’re not going fast enough.

Success doesn’t come easy. Success doesn’t come fast. Success is consists of a lot of dedication & patience.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun.