"Tell me you stones, O speak, you towering palaces! Streets, say a word! Spirit of this place, are you dumb? All things are alive in your sacred walls Eternal Rome, it's only for me all is still."

"A world without love would be no world."

"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."

"Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten."

"So gewiß ist der allein glücklich und groß, der weder zu herrschen noch zu gehorchen braucht, um etwas zu sein!"

"I hold to faith in the divine love — which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ — as the foundation on which alone my happiness rests."

"One lives but once in the world."

"Getting along with women, Knocking around with men, Having more credit than money, Thus one goes through the world."

"When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash."

"Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Es ist der Vater mit seinem Kind; Er hat den Knaben wohl in dem Arm, Er faßt ihn sicher, er hält ihn warm."

"Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets hims apart From every other creature On earth."

"As great, everlasting, Adamantine laws Dictate, we must all Complete the cycles Of our existence."

"Only mankind Can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence To the moment."

"Let the noble man Be generous and good, Tirelessly achieving What is just and useful: Let him be a model For those beings whom he surmises."

"In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug."