Battle not with monsters, for then you become one.
Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.
Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.
A person hears only what they understand.
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.
The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.