A talent can be cultivated in tranquility; a character only in the rushing stream of life.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

All understanding begins in wonder!

What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.

Every form correctly seen is beautiful

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.