Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Nothing is worse than active ignorance.

Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Our earthly ball a peopled garden.