To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch.

Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.

Do not judge God's world from your own. Trim your own hedge as you wish and plant your flowers in the patterns you can understand, but do not judge the garden of nature from your little window box.

The man was such an intellectual he was of almost no use.

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.