Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Mi hipocondria es ciertamente la capacidad de extraer en cualquier suceso de la vida, llámese como se llame, la mayor cantidad de veneno en beneficio propio.

¿No es extraño que quienes dominan al género humano ocupen un rango tan superior al de quienes lo educan?

Esto revela hasta qué punto el hombre es un animal esclavo.

One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.