Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one.

You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.

The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently.

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.

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

To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability.

When two people are really happy about one another one can generally assume they are mistaken.