We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Manners form the great charm of women.

The most damaging prejudice consists of banning any kind of investigation of nature.

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

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

Idea and experience will never coincide in the center; only through art and action are they united.