When one is polite in German, one lies.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.