No shortcomings of other people cause us to be more intolerant than those which are caricatures of our own.

Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail.

I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

I am not blind to the shortcomings of our own people.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.