That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

No matter what one says, you can recognize only those matters that are equal to you. Only rulers who possess extraordinary abilities will recognize and esteem properly extraordinary abilities in their subjects and servants.

I hate everything that merely instructs me without augmenting or directly invigorating my activity.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.