Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

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.

There speaks the man of truly noble ways, Who will not listen to the words of praise. In modesty averse, and with deaf ears, He acts as though the others were his peers.

You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.