Love can do much, but duty more.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face.

The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.

I had toward the poetic art a peculiar relation which was only practical after I had cherished in my mind for a long time a subject which possessed me, a model which inspired me, a predecessor who attracted me, until at length, after I had molded it

Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.