I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.

To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together.

He alone deserves liberty and life who daily must win them anew.

What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

A genuine work of art usually displeases at first sight, as it suggests a deficiency in the spectator.