People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end.

Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

One is never satisfied with the portrait of a person that one knows.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

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

Dispel not, the happy delusions of children.

Stupidity is without anxiety.