Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
Thou art in the end what thou art. Put on wigs with millions of curls, set thy foot upon ell-high rocks. Thou abidest ever--what thou art.
Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent.
Man's restlessness makes him strive.
Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.
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.