It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.