Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent.

No one is so much alone in the universe as a denier of God.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted.

Of music. Thou speakest to me of things which in all my endless life I have not found and shall not find.

Only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which his nation and the spirit of his nation affect the individual.

The very afflictions of our earthly pilgrimage are presages of our future glory, as shadows indicate the sun.

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

God makes the world all over again, whenever a little child is born.

A man never shows his own character so plainly as by the way he portrays another's.