Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

We should treat children as God does us, who makes us happiest when He leaves us under the influence of innocent delusions.

When translating one must proceed up to the intranslatable; only then one becomes aware of the foreign nation and the foreign tongue.

There is no way to face the great advantages of another person than through love.

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?

Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.