Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

There are many faculties in man, each of which takes its turn of activity, and that faculty which is paramount in any period and exerts itself through the strongest nation, determines the civility of that age: and each age thinks its own the perfection of reason.

In a tavern everybody puts on airs except the landlord.

Men are not philosophers, but are rather very foolish children, who, by reason of their partiality, see everything in the most absurd manner, and are the victims at all times of the nearest object. There is even no philosopher who is a philosopher at all times. Our experience, our perception is conditioned by the need to acquire in parts and in succession, that is, with every truth a certain falsehood.

Persecution readily knits friendship between its victims.

Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.