A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

I have no patience whatever with these gorilla damnifications of humanity.

Goethe's devil is a cultivated personage and acquainted with the modern sciences; sneers at witchcraft and the black art even while employing them, and doubts most things, nay, half disbelieves even his own existence.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.

The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident.