Friedrich Schiller

Why should I deem myself to be a chisel, when I could be the artist?

Sorrow is brief but joy is endless

Man is never so authentically himself as when at play.

We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

Did you think the lion was sleeping because he didn't roar?

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

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.

The brave person thinks of himself last of all.

Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.

Measure not by the scale of perfection the meager product of reality.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

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

What shall he fear that does not fear death.

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real creators, the longer or shorter duration of which distinguishes the thinking artist from the dreamer. Hence your complaints of unfruitfulness, for you reject too soon and discriminate too severely.

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

To one, science is an exalted goddess; to another it is a cow which provides him with butter.

Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.

Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

Speech is always bolder than action.