Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.

Fathers have a lot to do to make up for having sons.

We should not talk about our friends: otherwise we will talk away the feeling of friendship.

Original minds are not distinguished by being the first to see a new thing, but instead by seeing the old, familiar thing that is over-looked as something new.

I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's.