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

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants

Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking.

One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.