How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

The force of a language does not consist of rejecting what is foreign but of swallowing it.

God made man simple, but how he changed and got complicated is hard to say.

One must not criticize that which is common since it remains always the same.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs.