Quotes by Humboldt

Only what we have wrought into our character during life can we take away with us.

— Humboldt

Character

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.

— Humboldt

Wisdom

When we are not too anxious about happiness and unhappiness, but devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, then happiness comes of itself—nay, even springs from the midst of a life of troubles and anxieties and privations.

— Humboldt

Happiness

The finest fruit earth holds up to its Maker is a finished man .

— Humboldt

Wisdom