“All that is transitory is but a metaphor.”
“Behaviour is a mirror in which every one displays his own image.”
“The deed is everything; the fame is nothing.”
“The intelligent man finds everything laughable, the sensible man hardly anything.”
“Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."(Letter to A.F. Oeser, Nov. 9, 1768)”
“The more one knows, the more one comprehends, the more one realizes that everything turns in a circle.”