Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

A man would create another man if one did not already exist, but a woman might live an eternity without even thinking of reproducing her own sex.

Oh, happy he who still hopes he can emerge from Error's boundless sea! - Faust.

Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.