Strength, strength alone, is honorable, the German nation clamors in its majesty. But since it is hard to muster strength so suddenly, they have to make do with boorishness.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

When we interpret nature, we refer phenomena that are rarely entirely unintelligible back to something that actually exists, but is equally unintelligible.

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.

I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

No one will stop to help you when you are in need, but everyone forces opinions upon you that you do not require.

A pious woman's neighbor, a philanthropist's child, a liberal's servant--these three have a hard life.