No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Silence is as deep as eternity speech a shallow as time.

I think it was very impertinent of him to write to you at all, and very hypocritical. I hate such false friends. Why could not he keep on quarrelling with you as his father did before him?

Woe to the makers of literal translations who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.

To understand a literary style consider what it omits.