When you have discovered a stain in yourself, you eagerly seek for and gladly find stains in others.

Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil.

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself.

Discontent is the source of all trouble,but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.

Only he is free who cultivates his own thoughts and strives without fear to do justice to them.