Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance. [Ger., Was man in der Jugend wunscht, hat man im Alter die Fulle.]

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one.

It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding.