“Even weak men when united are powerful.”

Toil of science swells the wealth of art.

Soon is the struggle past, and to the earth, To the eternal sun, I render back These atoms, joined in me for pain and pleasure.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

The storm is master. Man, as a ball, is tossed twixt winds and billows.

Arrow-swift the present sweepeth, and motionless forever stands the past.

Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake it’s all on its honor.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our dangers.

Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.

Truth is more than a dream and a song.

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays.

Physical beauty is the sign of an interior beauty, a spiritual and moral beauty which is the basis, the principle, and the unity of the beautiful.

He who considers too much will perform little.

O that it might remain eternally green, The beautiful time of youthful love.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

Foolish is the man who says that he fears death, not because it will cause pain when it arrives but because anticipation of it is painful.

Ability is a poor man’s wealth.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.

Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.

No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.