As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone.

Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it.

This being busied with thoughts of immortality is for the noble classes and especially for women with nothing to do. A solid person, though, someone who already intends to be something worthy here, and who therefore has to strive daily, has to struggle and work, gives the world to come a rest.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

No prudent antagonist thinks light of his adversaries.

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.