In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.
Category Archive: 1770
What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars.
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.
Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
World history is a court of judgment.
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the discriminating powers of the mind, and unfitting it for all voluntary exertion to reduce it to a state of almost savage torpor.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.
Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.