“On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment.”

“You could be happy without me - but not become unhappy through me. This I felt alive in me - and thereupon I built my hopes. You could give yourself to another, but none could love you more purely or more completely than I did. To none could your happiness be holier, as it was to me, and always will be. My whole existence, everything that lives within me, everything, my most precious, I devote to you, and if I try to ennoble myself, that is done, in order to become ever worthier of you, to make you ever happier.”

“Der Mensch braucht wenig, und an Leben reich Ist die Natur.”

“To save all we must risk all.”

“When the Creator banished from his sightFrail man to dark mortality's abode,And granted him a late return to light,Only by treading reason's arduous road,—When each immortal turned his face away,She, the compassionate, aloneTook up her dwelling in that house of clay,With the deserted, banished one.With drooping wing she hovers hereAround her darling, near the senses' land,And on his prison-walls so drearElysium paints with fond deceptive hand.While soft humanity still lay at rest,Within her tender arms extended,No flame was stirred by bigots' murderous zest,No guiltless blood on high ascended.The heart that she in gentle fetters binds,Views duty's slavish escort scornfully;Her path of light, though fairer far it winds,Sinks in the sun-track of morality.Those who in her chaste service still remain,No grovelling thought can tempt, no fate affright;The spiritual life, so free from stain,Freedom's sweet birthright, they receive again,Under the mystic sway of holy might.”

“Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”

“God helps the brave”