“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

The happy man does not notice the flight of time.

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Strange customs do not thrive in foreign soil.

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quicksand to virtue.

Freedom exists only with power.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

The dictates of the heart are the voice of fate.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

The will of man is his happiness.

The great happiness of life, I find, after all, to consist in the regular discharge of some mechanical duty.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

Dare to be wrong and to dream.

To save all we must risk all.