A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Every original idea is first ridiculed, then vigorously attacked, and finally taken for granted.

A poet or philosopher should have no fault to find with his age if it only permits him to do his work undisturbed in his own corner; nor with his fate if the corner granted him allows of his following his vocation without having to think about other people.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.