What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

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.

What is predestination? Answer: God is more powerful and wiser than we are, therefore he deals with us according to his pleasure.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

If everyone sweeps before his own front door, then the street is clean.

It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.