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.

The safest thing is always to try to convert everything that is in us and around us into action; let the others talk and argue about it as they please.

The true poet is called to take in the splendor of the world and for that reason will always be inclined to praise rather than tofind fault.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

No one has ever learned fully to know themselves.

God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom.

When two men quarrel, who owns the cooler head is the more to blame.