18th-century Translator Quotes

Ludwig Tieck
August Wilhelm Schlegel
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
Richard Challoner
Frances Brooke
Henry Martyn
Ann Hasseltine Judson

Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.

I was amongst the virtues like the great Turk in his seraglio of women, and I chose to dwell with that virtue which looked the fairest in my eyes and gave me at that season most pleasure. In short, I made wives of them: I first admired them, then made them my own property, and if they would not submit to my will, I again turned them off and divorced them.

He who does not love a flower, has lost all love and fear of God.

Ludwig Tieck
Ludwig Tieck
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister - a near relation, a more affectionate Friend; and I rejoice to follow Him, and to love Him. Blessed Jesus! Thou art all I want - a forerunner to me in all I ever shall go through as a Christian, a minister, or a missionary....

Henry Martyn
Henry Martyn
Jesus, still lead on,
Till our rest be won!
And although the way be cheerless,
We will follow calm and fearless;
Guide us by Thy hand
To our fatherland!

Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf
Who does not love wine, women, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

August Wilhelm Schlegel
August Wilhelm Schlegel
What we ask of God, is mercy, grace, and salvation: now our faith assures us, there is no means of coming at mercy, grace, or salvation, but through Jesus Christ.

Richard Challoner
Richard Challoner
A state of rest is ungraceful; all nature is most beautiful in motion: trees agitated by the wind, a ship under sail, a horse in the course, a fine woman dancing.

Frances Brooke
Frances Brooke
Behold the state of man's unstable mind,
Still prone to change with every changing wind!
All our resolves are weak, but weakest prove
Where sprung from sense of disappointed love.

Beneath a shivering canopy reclined, Of aspen leaves that wave without a wind, I love to lie, when lulling breezes stir The spiry cones that tremble on the fir.

Men of an amiable, yielding temper, willing to take the lowest place; to be least of all; and the servants to all...who live near God, and who are willing to suffer all things for Christ's sake without being proud of it - these are the men we need.

Ann Hasseltine Judson
Ann Hasseltine Judson