Nature is, after all, the only book that offers important content on every page.

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

You shall abstain, shall abstain. That is the eternal song.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.