The honor of a country depends much more on removing its faults than on boasting of its qualities.
What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.
Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.
Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime which Heaven and Earth condemn.
In ourselves, rather than in material nature, lie the true source and life of the beautiful. The human soul is the sun which diffuses light on every side, investing creation with its lovely hues, and calling forth the poetic element that lies hidden in every existing thing.