Language makes infinite use of finite media..

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in..

Governmental regulations all carry coercion to some degree, and even where they don't, they habituate man to expect teaching, guidance and help outsi….

No matter how good or great a man may be, there is yet a better and a greater man within him..

Language is the spiritual exhalation of the nation..

Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. ….

Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. T….

One must not consider a language as a product dead, and formed but once; it is an animate being, and ever creative. Human thought elaborates itself w….

It is almost more important how a person takes his fate than what it is. And the best way is with gratitude while trying to improve it for the good o….

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing f….

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospec….

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

Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy, since they cannot change their places, are witnesses of all the changes….

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary..

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task..

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 r….

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is..

Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all..

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that….

Natural objects themselves, even when they make no claim to beauty, excite the feelings, and occupy the imagination. Nature pleases, attracts, deligh….

To judge a man means nothing more than to ask: What content does he give to the form of humanity? What concept should we have of humanity if he were ….