When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Certain faults are necessary for the existence of the individual. We would resent it if old friends were to get rid of certain peculiarities.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.

You will find the most pronounced hatred of other nations on the lowest cultural levels. There is, though, a level where the hatred disappears completely and where one so to speak stands above the nations and where one experiences fortune or misfortune of a neighboring country as if they had happened to one's own.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.