Women stand related to beautiful nature around us, and the enamoured youth mixes their form with moon and stars, with woods and waters, and the pomp of summer. They heal us of awkwardness by their words and looks. We observe their intellectual influence on the most serious student. They refine and clear his mind: teach him to put a pleasing method into what is dry and difficult.

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise.

The element running through entire nature, which we popularly call Fate, is known to us as limitation. Whatever limits us, we callFate.

In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world.

The Americans have no faith, they rely on the power of a dollar; they are deaf to sentiment.

No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.