Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.

Every good man progressively becomes God. To become God, to be man, and to educate oneself, are expressions that are synonymous.

There is so much poetry, and yet nothing is more rare than a poetic work. This is what the masses make out of poetical sketches, studies, aphorisms, trends, ruins, and raw material.

The history of imitation of the older literature, particularly abroad, has among other advantages this one, that the important concepts of unintentional parody and passive wit can be deduced from it most easily and comprehensively.

Original love never appears in pure form, but in manifold veils and shapes, such as confidence, humility, reverence, serenity, asfaithfulness and modesty, as gratefulness; but primarily as longing and wistful melancholy.

Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.