Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.

Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.

The most original authors are not so because they advance what is new, but because they put what they have to say as if it had never been said before.

I've often heard it said, a preacherMight learn, with a comedian for a teacher.

The way you see people is the way you treat them and the way you treat them is what they become.

To wisdom’s final fruit, profoundly true:Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every day must conquer them anew.Thus here, by danger girt, the active dayOf childhood, manhood, age will pass away.

To wisdom’s final fruit, profoundly true:Of freedom and of life he only is deservingWho every cay must conquer them anew.Thus here, by danger girt, the active dayOf childhood, manhood, age will pass away.

Eigentlich weiß man nur wenn man wenig weiß - mit dem Wissen wächst der Zweifel.

A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.