The way to learn German, is, to read the same dozen pages over and over a hundred times, till you know every word and particle in them, and can pronounce and repeat them by heart.

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.

Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.

If speculation tends thus to a terrific unity, in which all things are absorbed, action tends directly back to diversity. The first is the course or gravitation of mind; the second is the power of nature. Nature is manifold. The unity absorbs, and melts or reduces. Nature opens and creates. These two principles reappear and interpenetrate all things, all thought; the one, the many.

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.