Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth.

He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest.

If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.