If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind.

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself – nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

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

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don’t, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outside himself, instead of formulating his own.

Whatever does not spring from a man’s free choice, or is only the result of instruction and guidance, does not enter into his very being, but still remains alien to his true nature; he does not perform it with truly human energies, but merely with mechanical exactness.

Among men who are really free, every form of industry becomes more rapidly improved – all the arts flourish more gracefully – all the sciences extend their range.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation’s culture as its language.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

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.