There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction.

The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds.

Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.

Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best.

The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education