Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.

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.

Don't judge anyone harshly until you yourself have been through his experiences

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

It is working within limits that the craftsman reveals himself.