Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

A stated truth loses its grace, but a repeated error appears insipid and ridiculous.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?