What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!
We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.
The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.
To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.
A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.
As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.
Who strives always to the utmost, him can we save.
He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself.
Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey.
There is nothing more frightful than for a teacher to know only what his scholars are intended to know.
I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.
Always to distrust is an error, as well as always to trust.
Let there be truth between us.
The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn.
Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.
One’s roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
Unrest and uncertainty are our lot.
After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.
Do thine own task, and be therewith content.