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

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Treat people the way they are and they will stay that way. Treat people the way they can become and they will become that way.

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

It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

The bad thing is that thinking about thought doesn't help at all; one has to have it from nature so that the good ideas appear before us like free children of God calling to us: Here we are.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.