“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”

“God save you, my brethren, with all your -isms and schisms! I am a citizen of the world, and a man of Weimer. I have established myself by culture in this choice society; and if anyone knows a better place, let him go to it.”

“I am contented, happy, and consequently a bad historian.”

“I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.”

“Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?”

“I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity.”

“I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.”