The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture.
There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten.
Go forward with joyful confidence.
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
He who rules must fully humor as much as he commands.
'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.