Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another.

Only he who finds empiricism irksome is driven to method.

Let us seek to fathom those things that are fathomable and reserve those things which are unfathomable for reverence in quietude.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are.

If one doesn't know one's own country, one doesn't have standards for foreign countries.