Every second is of infinite value.

There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference.

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

All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.

If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness.