In every form of womanly love something of motherly love also comes to light.
He who humbles himself wants to be exalted.
A woman's pity, which is talkative, carries the sick person's bed to the public marketplace.
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
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.