Faith can be interested in results only, for a truth once recognized as such puts an end to the believer's thinking.

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were its only representative?

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

Life, in all ranks and situations, is an outward occupation, an actual and active work.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.