What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension.

Oral delivery aims at persuasion and making the listener believe they are converted. Few persons are capable of being convinced the majority allow themselves to be persuaded.