There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.

Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

Neither art thou the man to catch the fiend and hold him! [Ger., Du bist noch nicht der Mann den Teufel festzuhalten.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.