A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

Thus one can observe that those who proclaim piety as their goal and purpose usually turn into hypocrites.

Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion.

Hypotheses are the scaffolds which are erected in front of a building and removedd when the building is completed. They are indispensable to the worker; but the worker must not mistake the scaffolding for the building.

Prudent and active men, who know their strength and use it with limit and circumspection, alone go far in the affairs of the world.