Every man can have his own peculiar truth; and yet it is always the same.
Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realised, it is hardly distinguishable from phantasy and phantastery.
Error is related to truth as sleep to waking.
Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it.
Deep and earnest thinkers are in a difficult position with regard to the public.
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
Character in matters great and small consists in a man steadily pursuing the things of which he feels himself capable.
Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.
Beauty can never really understand itself.
Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.
An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, a wise man hardly anything.
All practical men try to bring the world under their hands; all thinkers, under their heads. How far each succeeds, they may both see for themselves.