I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

The "second sight" possessed by the Highlanders in Scotland is actually a foreknowledge of future events. I believe they possess this gift because they don't wear trousers.

What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemployment.

Be attentive, feel nothing in vain, measure and compare: this is the whole law of philosophy.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.