The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

...nothing at all rides on the life or death of the individual.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.