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.

Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

Mankind? That is an abstraction. There have always been and always will be only individuals.

It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing than to reckon even a half-hour insignificant.

Colors are light's suffering and joy

Happy contractedness of youth, nay, of mankind in general, that they think neither of the high nor the deep, of the true nor the false, but only of what is suited to their own conceptions.