He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and half-wise that are dangerous.

Let us live, while we are alive!

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art.