How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is..

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that….

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary..

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were ….

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language..

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, deligh….

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good o….

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him..

One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself w….

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospec….

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is..

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes….

Whatever does not spring from a man's free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still r….

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. T….

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all..

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing f….

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those….

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. ….

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less ….

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation..

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task..