The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

The aim of education is the condition of suspended judgment on everything.

The muffled syllables that Nature speaks Fill us with deeper longing for her word; She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks, She makes a sweeter music than is heard.

Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence.

The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

The mass of mankind is divided into two classes, the Sancho Panza's who have a sense for reality, but no ideals, and the Don Quixote's with a sense for ideals, but mad.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.