Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.

But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the art.

The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

No man acquires property without acquiring with it a little arithmetic also.

Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and foolish.