Who are you then?" "I am part of that power which eternally wills evil and eternally works good.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

The best benefit we derive from history is the enthusiasm it excites.

We see only what we know.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Superstition belongs to the essence of mankind and takes refuge, when one thinks one has suppressed it completely, in the strangest nooks and crannies; once it is safely ensconced there, it suddenly reappears.