Friedrich Schiller

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

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

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

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Oh how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light,Upon the heart of men.Have hope! though clouds environ round,And gladness hides her face in scorn,Put thou the shadow from thy brow,No night but hath its morn.Have love! not love alone for one, But man as man thy brother call,And scatter like the circling sun,Thy charities on all.