Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans.

The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.

Each indecision brings its own delays and days are lost lamenting over lost days... What you can do or think you can do, begin it. For boldness has magic, power, and genius in it.

When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my final ruin I will bear!

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.

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

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.