Friedrich Schiller

No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

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

Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.

The average estimate themselves by what they do, the above average by what they are.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Aesthetic matters are fundamental for the harmonious development of both society and the individual.

Live with your century; but do not be its creature.

As freely as the firmament embraces the world, or the sun pours forth impartially his beams, so mercy must encircle both friend and foe.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.

Great souls suffer in silence.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair.

The key to education is the experience of beauty.