We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.
Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.
The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last.
A rainbow which lasts for a quarter of an hour is looked at no longer.
Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]
The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.
If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses.