A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

Everyone is deceived in his hopes, cheated in his expectations.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

I am very anxious to please the public, particularly as it lives and lets live.

To be active is the primary vocation of man.