The little man is still a man.

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

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.

Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy.

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.