457 Quotes by Friedrich Schiller

Have faith! where'er thy bark is driven, 'The calm's disport, the tempest's mirth, Know this! God rules the host of heaven, The inhabitants of earth.

I feel that I am a man of destiny.

It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.

Accursed be he who plays with the devil.

If the art of gardening is at last to turn back from her extravagances and rest with her other sisters, it is, above everything, necessary to have clearly before you what you require . . . It is certainly tasteless and inconsistent to desire to encompass the world with a garden-wall, but very practicable and reasonable to make a garden . . . into a characteristic whole to the eye, heart, and nderstanding alike.

Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains.

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

Eternity gives nothing back of what one leaves out of the minutes.

Day's lustrous eyes grow heavy in sweet death.