"Each strives with each, as each is pressed upon; each must provide for his own subsistence, and defend his own life."

"Why acts nature thus? and why does she thus crowd her creatures one upon another? Because she would produce the great…"

"With the regret of a traveler, obliged to leave a country before he learned to know it as he wished, I take leave of …"

"Am sorgfältigsten, mein Freund, meiden Sie die Autorschaft darüber. Zu früh oder unmäßig gebraucht, macht sie den Kop…"

"Der Appetit nach einer schönen Frucht ist angenehmer als die Frucht selbst."

"For every ancient nation likes to consider itself the firstborn and to take its territory for humanity’s birthplace."

"In his later work, in particular, he voices considerable animus against British colonization in India; in his 1803 pr…"

"Should there not be manifest progress and development but in a higher sense than people have imagined it? ... No one …"

"Wir leben immer in einer Welt, die wir uns selbst bilden."

"Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length: Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet str…"