I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

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.

You can make a good living from soothsaying but not from truthsaying.

As soon as you know a man to be blind, you imagine that you can see it from his back.

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.

A man is never more serious than when he praise himself.

Much reading has brought upon us a learned barbarism.