Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
Sometimes with the most intense pain a paralysis of sensibility occurs. The soul disintegrates--hence the deadly frost--the free power of the mind--the shattering, ceaseless wit of this kind of despair. There is no inclination for anything any more--the person is alone, like a baleful power--as he has no connection with the rest of the world he consumes himself gradually--and in accordance with his own principle he is--misanthropic and misotheos.
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Nature is a petrified magic city.
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
