Do you call the jewel blind, because your eye is?

Beauty satisfies the senses completely and at the same time uplifts the soul. That which gratifies the senses is pleasant, and that which uplifts the soul without being sensual in the least is good, true, right, anything you like, but not beautiful.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

The ideas of an age are most abundant where they are not crowded by original ideas.

Who claims that the heathen's view of the world is incorrect? Life gives you nothing! It is ruled by false gods! Nothing remains true to you but your own self; provided you remain true to it.

Man will return to his origins. Goethe has finally become as squiggly as the city of his fathers.

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.