Before passing different laws for different people, I'd relinquish myself unto you as your slave.

If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however, that he is completely and utterly mistaken, we are in danger of missing his entire concept.

Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

If only it were God's will that printed and written materials have as much influence on the people as the princes and their censors fear! Considering the countless good books we have, the world would have changed for the better a long time ago.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.