Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world.

Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.

Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly.

When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame.

Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.

One is proud to worship when he cannot be an idol.

Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it.