If you don't know foreign languages, you don't know anything about your own.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

Originality provokes originality.

Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.