Classicism is health, romanticisim is sickness.

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.