Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

He is the happiest man who can see the connection between the end and the beginning of life.

What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.

Originality provokes originality.