You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere

The greatest joy of a thinking man is to have searched the explored and to quietly revere the unexplored.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

True happiness springs from moderation.

Everything transitory is but an image.