All understanding begins in wonder!

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

We learn to treasure what is above this earth; we long for revelation, which nowhere burns more purely and more beautifully than in the New Testament.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.

There are but few who have ideas and are, at the same time, capable of action. Ideas enlarge but stymie, action enlivens but confines.