Nothing leads to good that is not natural.

— Friedrich Schiller

O friends, no more these sounds! Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!

— Friedrich Schiller

Oh, how can we, scarce mastering our passions, expect that youth should keep itself in check?

— Friedrich Schiller

Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge.

— Friedrich Schiller

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

— Friedrich Schiller

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

— Friedrich Schiller

Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

— Friedrich Schiller

The joke loses everything when the joker laughs himself.

— Friedrich Schiller

The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.

— Friedrich Schiller

There are three lessons I would write-Three words, as with a burning pen, In tracings of eternal light, Upon the heart of men. Have hope! Though clouds environ round, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, No night but hath its morn. Have love! Not love alone for one, But man as man thy brother call, And scatter like the circling sun, Thy charities on all.

— Friedrich Schiller