Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.

To philosophize means to make vivid.

The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

Character is a perfectly educated will.

Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They have remained standing with the symptoms and have interpreted these in manifold and contrary ways. Some have regarded it as a merely local ill. The most ingenious opponents have pressed for castration. They well noticed that this alleged illness is nothing other than the crisis of beginning puberty.