What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning.

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannotbe explored.

The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.

Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.