The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

German radicalism: freedom-masturbation.

Piety is the fermentation of the forming mind and the putrefaction of the disintegrating one.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

I'd wish the government took honest people into consideration, it shows enough consideration for scoundrels.