Do we write books so that they shall merely be read? Don't we also write them for employment in the household? For one that is read from start to finish, thousands are leafed through, other thousands lie motionless, others are jammed against mouseholes, thrown at rats, others are stood on, sat on, drummed on, have gingerbread baked on them or are used to light pipes.

Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the Alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitful.

Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.

Every condition of the soul has its own sign and expression...So you will see how hard it is to seem original without being so.

Some theories are good for nothing except to be argued about.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.