What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

Man's restlessness makes him strive.

If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings.