Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.

To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign.

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.