Have you never observed that children will sometimes, of a sudden, give utterance to ideas which makes us wonder how they got possession of them? Which presuppose a long series of other ideas and secret self-communings? Which break forth like a full stream out of the earth, an infallible sign that the stream was not produced in a moment from a few raindrops, but had long been flowing concealed beneath the ground?
Johann Gottfried HerderEach nationality contains its centre of happiness within itself, as a bullet the centre of gravity.
Johann Gottfried HerderIt is easier to make a lady of a peasant-girl than a peasant-girl of a lady.
Johann Gottfried Herder