If you buy the why, the how is infinitely bearable

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us.

When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality.

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.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.