If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts

There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing.

That grand drama in a hundred acts, which is reserved for the next two centuries of Europe-the most terrible, most questionable and perhaps also the most hopeful of all dramas.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

The great advantage in noble parentage is that enables one to endure poverty more easily.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann.