What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity..

Humankind's chief fault is that they have so many small ones..

The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made..

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying..

I would rather dwell in the dim fog of superstition than in air rarefied to nothing by the air-pump of unbelief-in which the panting breast expires, ….

Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness..

He thought of the mouldering child, which laid its withered thin arms around his soul, as if it were his own, and to whom Death had given as much as ….

Nations and men are only the best when they are the gladdest, and deserve heaven when they enjoy it..

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her h….

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again….

Remembrances last longer than present realities..

A sky full of silent suns..

It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise..

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect u….

It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them..

The German language is the organ among the languages..

Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent..

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only….

Despair is the only genuine atheism..

If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge..

For no one does life drag more disagreeably than for those who try to speed it up..