There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.

When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.

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

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness.

In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for.

Doubt can only be removed by action.