It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few.

Win for yourself that which your fathers have won.

If you want to get pleasure out of life, you must attach value to the world.

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

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.