I am better than my reputation

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Every great mind seeks to labor for eternity. All men are captivated by immediate advantages; great minds alone are excited by the prospect of distant good.

Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect.

It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

Everlastingly chained to a single little fragment of the Whole, man himself develops into nothing but a fragment; everlastingly in his ear the monotonous sound of the wheel that he turns, he never develops the harmony of his being, and instead of putting the stamp of humanity upon his own nature, he becomes nothing more than the imprint of his occupation or of his specialized knowledge.

Individual character is in the right that is in strict consistence with itself. Self-contradiction is the only wrong.