God of heaven! and is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason, or after he has lost it?
Generosity wins favour for every one, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.
Freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.
Fools and wise folk are alike harmless. It is the half-wise, and the half-foolish, who are the most dangerous.
First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others.
Faith is private capital, kept in one’s own house. There are public savings-banks and loan-offices, which supply individuals in their day of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
Every man hears only what he understands.
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.