Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.

Genius is the naturalist or geographer of the supersensible regions, and draws their map; and, by acquainting us with new fields of activity, cools our affection for the old. These are at once accepted as the reality, of which the world we have conversed with is the show.

The world exists for the education of each man.

Nature hates monopolies and exceptions.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,--and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.