Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day.

No one knows what he is doing so long as he is acting rightly; but of what is wrong one is always conscious.

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence.

The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil.

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.

There is no remedy but love for the great superiority of others