Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

Only law can give us freedom.

Desire is the presentiment of our inner abilities, and the forerunner of our ultimate accomplishments.

He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.

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