Character is perfectly educated will.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.