A cure by regression is homeopathic, like healing the damage done by ministers and ignorance with stupidity and Jesuits.

He who takes people for smart pays an expensive lesson.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world.

Lap-dogs and blood-hounds enjoy the greatest respect at court; house-dogs and no dogs at all are not even considered.

Plato calls complacency the companion of loneliness.

Erroneous views and presumptuousness send a talent to the insane asylum.