Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship.

The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech.

Today a man of knowledge might well feel as though he were God transformed into an animal.