Many a witty inspiration is like the surprising reunion of befriended thoughts after a long separation.

Philosophy is the true home of irony, which might be defined as logical beauty: for wherever men are philosophizing in spoken or written dialogues, and provided they are not entirely systematic, irony ought to be produced and postulated; even the Stoics regarded urbanity as a virtue.

Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

Religion and morals are symmetrically opposed, just like poetry and philosophy.

He who does not become familiar with nature through love will never know her.

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better anyway. This is the same as if a dogmatic philosopher reproached a skeptic for not being able to devise a system.