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.

Perhaps pure reason without heart would never have thought of God.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.