Art is purposiveness without purpose.
Patience is the strength of the weak, impatience is the weakness of the strong.
Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise.
It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.