O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

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

A beautiful soul has no other merit than its own existence.

Man only plays when in the full meaning of the word he is a man, and he is only completely a man when he plays.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.