Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

The dear good people don't know how long it takes to learn to read. I've been at it eighty years, and can't say yet that I've reached the goal.

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

New inventions can and will be made; however, nothing new can be thought of that concerns moral man. Everything has already been thought and said which at best we can express in different forms and give new expressions to.

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

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?