If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

Some people spend the day in complaining of a headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value.