If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much

A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

Aptitudes are assumed, they should become accomplishments. That is the purpose of all education.

You accuse a woman of wavering affections, but don't blame her; she is just looking for a consistent man.

The use of a thing is only a part of its significance. To know anything thoroughly, to have the full command of it in all its appliances, we must study it on its own account, independently of any special application.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.